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I think it's called "salami diplomacy" or something along those lines, where they just take a little more each time
Salami slicing diplomacy iirc
Oh, I thought it was because they were slowly pushing their salami further and further in.
I suppose that is one way to quickly set up some infrastructure, not all that different from what Imperial Japan had planned for the Yamato. Very clever.
What had the Japanese planned for the Yamato?
When the war was obviously in the 'last stand' phase for the Imperial Japanese Navy, they sent their pride, the largest battleship in the world, Yamato, with just nine light escorts to run itself aground on the shore of Okinawa island and act as an unsinkable fortress there. Unfortunately it had to go past about eleven carriers with almost 400 aircraft and... it didn't make it.
Towards the end of the war their navy was pretty much toast, and the ship wasn't really all that useful anymore. Took a lot of fuel that they didn't have, too vulnerable to torpedos and aircraft carriers without sufficient escorts, all sorts of problems.
So they were going to run it aground and use it as a stationary artillery battery for the inevitable ground invasion. Had to send it to Okinawa first though, and it got swarmed by planes and sunk before it got there.
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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