Update (February 1st 1947)
0000 February 1st 1947.
Imperial Palace. Tokyo, Japan.
"Good morning your Majesty, Gentlemen. We will begin with Industry today." Hideki began the monthly meeting.
"Your Majesty, Gentlemen, good morning." Ginjiro began. "January was a fairly stable month with no major resource changes."
"Our Transport Capacity remains higher than I would like but little can be done to reduce it without Garrison troops. The situation will probably become worse when the fighting begins in earnest as our forces will require additional supplies.
Energy continues to be the main worry with resources with most others reducing or increasing slightly. Oil conversion still impacts on Energy reserves but will hopefully stop soon to allow the Energy defecit to decrease. We are increasing our monetary reserves which allows Minister Kuniaki some opportunities to try and increase his network of agents overseas. Manpower is being drained too quickly and we will return to a near zero state unless we reduce losses.
More Convoy Transports were ordered last month to replace the slow losses we have been incurring in various parts of the World. No other production has altered.
Our supply stockpile is in good condition with the decreases shown due to a large resupply load at this particular time. This will tail off tomorrow and we should be increasing supplies again. Supplies have increased by two thousand tonnes during January.
Reinforcements are largely for our Naval and Air forces and are not manpower intensive. The upgrades to our Interceptor wings continues and should begin to require less prodution during February. We do still have to upgrade our Close Support Aircraft with the next research tabled to require a Tactical bomber upgrade and an increase in prodution to produce more of these aircraft. That is all for today." Ginjiro concluded.
"Military next please."
"Good morning your Majesty, Gentlemen. The Pacific remains extremely quiet with some small exceptions that Minister Osami will cover in his report. The bulk of the fighting is in Asia and the Middle East as our two current operations, Tedious and Komodo, continue to cause our enemies problems. The front lines against the Red Army are pretty much static but there are some signs that this could change with the melting snow." Tanigawa began.
"When does the snow begin to melt?" asked Hirohito.
"The beginning of March will see a change in the weather but most of the snow will remain until April with some still around until May in the higher mountains and northern Siberia." Tanigawa replied. "I will hand you over to Minster Satoru for a more detailed briefing."
"Thank you. Good morning your Majesty, Gentlemen." Satoru began. "Nothing at all has changed territorially in the Pacific with any changes being in Asia or the Middle East."
"As you can see Asia is pretty much waiting for Spring with the Red Army still mustering its forces along the front. The area of most concern for us now is the center as this is not only our weakest position but sees an increase in enemy forces. We do have a lot of territory that we can give up if needed in this area and unless the line crumbles elsewhere it should be containable."
"Northern India has not seen any changes as we continue to monitor any possible enemy build up. This has not occured yet and may not do so. Some of the territory of former Sinkiang is still in our hands as the Soviets are advancing very slowly in this part of the front."
"The western flank of our Chinese front line is in slightly more trouble with large enemy forces heading into this area. Most are thought to be moving east but we have already been forced from Dunhuang province and could lose more territory once the slow moving enemy troops arrive along the front. We have some manouvering room here as well and the position is not of too much concern."
"This is the biggest threat right now with a much larger enemy force opposite our weaker part of the line. The large enemy army moving into Erenhot is not much of a worry as we have ample forces surrounding this province to remove almost any enemy forces. Yuling and Datong provinces are likely to be attacked causing further losses but we do not consider a major breakthrough a threat as there are not enough enemy troops concentrated here. Should we lose Yuling province then only Kalgan will prevent Mengkokuo from surrendering to the Soviets. Needless to say we will take steps to prevent that from happening."
"Moving east to Manchuria we see a much more stable position with the enemy forces slowly reducing and we may be able to achieve force parity in this region within a few months if the losses continue for our enemies without replacements. The constant attacks along the coast during Operation Tedious are certainly destabalising the Soviet positions as they are forced to repeatedly respond to the losses. There is not much sign of us losing more ground for the time being."
"The final part of Asia is around Sakhalin Island where it looks like the Red Army are finally reducing their forces opposite the island as it has become clear to them that they are not going to cross the straight unless their Navy intervenes. This is not going to occur without us having weeks of warning as the Soviet Navy would be required to cross our picket lines somewhere. The entire Red Navy arriving at once would be the worst possible scenario but even then we do have BC Division 1 in Tokyo which is probably a match for the entire Soviet Navy."
"Moving to the Middle East where Operation Komodo is centred. There are several British puppet States in this region including Iraq, Persia, Syria, Lebanon and Ethiopia. None of them are a particular threat but combined they do provide the Allies with a fairly large force. Our Tactical bombers will be doing their best to even out the numbers. There are two neutral Countries, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, along the borders with our enemies which allows us to concentrate our forces and not worry about our flanks too much. Advancing through Persia to the Soviet border might not be a good idea but we might do that if we can and if the Soviets do not have too many troops there. There are no plans to attack either neutral Country for now."
