Central Asia is Mark and KoM's party; I have basically no clue what is going on there. No disrespect intended, but given the nations' IC, it can't be much. Not compared to the 1200 IC vs 1200 IC meatgrinder in Russia.
Oddman is, of course, correct that neither Punjab nor the Khanate can commit forces anywhere near the size of the vast armies slugging it out in Russia. At the moment, even less is committed than we theoretically have; both sides are fighting with shoestring and single divisions. In Punjab's case this is because he is rapidly redeploying from Europe to meet my backstab; in my case because I completely noobed things up and had troops inside Japan's borders when I DOWed, so most of my army got SRed to my capital. In any case fighting in the Tibetan highlands is not fast any way you look at it; if I'd had fifty motorised divisions on my side of the border at the moment of the DOW, I'd still be at most one province into Punjab.
Aside from the above general considerations, the East Asian theatre may be subdivided into Korea, China, Indochina, Burma, Tibet, and Siberia. In Korea, due to my aforementioned noobness, there is a Japanese defensive line along our peacetime border, which is also the OTL line of division. The intention, of course, was to seize the Korean ports almost instantly, but as it is, Falador got at least two army corps in there and even launched a brief attack, which he has now given up in the face of my first reinforcements. A grinding attritional campaign unfortunately remains a possibility; Korea is close to the Home Islands. In China there is basically nothing opposing my invasion: Two beachheads contain, respectively, three 1936 infantry and one militia division, all of which are at zero org and hanging on because VoV. Otherwise it's just a question of getting there first. The nomad cavalry is on the way.
Indochina has (based on my alliance line-of-sight from before the DOW) some peacetime garrisons, GAR and MIL, and there's a new stack in Hanoi which I haven't attacked yet, so I don't know what it contains. However it will soon be surrounded; the dang jungle is, at the moment, a much more serious opponent than the IJA. Indochina does of course shade into the Burmese front without any sharp division, and here we find the only serious Japanese force on the mainland, facing the German expeditionary force from my first entry into this war. The Germans have been driven back into a small corner of their Burmese colony, but have used jungle and river skillfully, and managed to hang on through half a year of savage battle. They are to be applauded for the dogged determination that has held up twice their number of Japanese and Punjabi; now, almost at the last minute, their sacrifice will be vindicated - the Legions are coming. Certain Russian propagandists spoke of
containing this valiant army; that is all very well, but consider that just a few weeks ago the Japanese were launching broad-front jungle offensives intended to
exterminate it. If they are now merely being contained, then already that is evidence that the initiative in this theatre has shifted drastically. And let's also note that the Japanese forces imposing this siege have already got lines of contravallation, in effect containing
them.
I already spoke of the Punjabi front: It will be fought mainly in the Tibetan highlands, not anyone's choice of theatre for fast-moving blitz warfare. I expect to mop up the Japanese and then fight a slow grind, first to the old peacetime border, then into Punjab proper. The relative strengths are already known: The Khanate has the power to push back the smaller Punjabi army; Punjab has the power to make the business slow, bloody, unpleasant, and protracted. It is quite likely that this front will be settled by some diplomatic upheaval elsewhere rather than military action, just as happened last time. As an aside, if the reports my intelligence services are bringing me about Punjabi R&D are at all accurate - and while it's true that the Tenth Bureau has not covered itself with glory in this war, still, industrial espionage is supposed to be its special strength - then some upheavals at high levels of the Punjabi government are definitely needed.
Finally, the Siberian front will likely see some minor skirmishes and nothing else: Currently there are a few Khanate corps pushing towards the Urals against no resistance at all, but the terrain is dreadful, the infrastructure is worse, and there's very little of value to either side. Both sides have bigger fish to fry: I expect that the Russians will commit just enough forces to maintain a credible defense, and then we'll both allow this front to settle into quiet obscurity.
