Japanese WW2 infantry doctrine reminds me a little of early WW1 infantry tactics, before the combatants learned not to perform human wave attacks against machine guns. Did the Japanese not pay attention to European battlefield experiences? Or did they just think they were somehow special, seeing as how the IJA performed well against Chinese opponents?
Japanese WW2 infantry doctrine reminds me a little of early WW1 infantry tactics, before the combatants learned not to perform human wave attacks against machine guns.
I'm confused by this sentence. I'm sorry to deviate from the point but this really irks me, mostly because it paints those in "early WWI" as being too stupid to realize walking into a machine gun was a bad idea. Human wave tactics mean something in the world of military theory and they were not the doctrine of any time of trench warfare. Normally I'd make a massive post explaining the details of how trench warfare was conducted but this is not the appropriate thread for it so I'll just ask you specifically what makes you think human wave tactics were used; if you choose to reply I can respond to those points specifically and hopefully help you there.