Beginning in August, the war between Australasia and the Japanese entered a rather delicate phase.
The Japanese Navy huddled in its ports, not daring to come out and fight a decisive battle with the Australasian Navy. This rendered the powerful Japanese Army completely useless, as they had no way to leave their islands and naturally could not pose a threat to Australasia.
Australasia was more than happy to do this. Every so often, it would organize massive air raids to bomb the Japanese homeland, and the targets of these bombings were exclusively large Japanese cities, such as the famous Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo.
On one hand, this aimed to disrupt domestic order in Japan while destroying important Japanese industries and other facilities as much as possible.
On the other hand, bombing major Japanese cities so frequently also served the purpose of training more air force troops.
Judging by Australasia's current aircraft production rate, the number of current outstanding pilots was clearly insufficient.
If they wanted to quickly acquire enough elite pilots, having them execute more combat missions was essential.
As it happened, bombing major cities within the Japanese homeland could serve as a relatively high-security mission, one that could be handed over to less experienced pilots to carry out.
Compared to the European battlefield, the Pacific battlefield was clearly much less interesting.
If not for the fact that Australasia did not want to end the war quite so early, the Japanese would probably already be considering on what terms they should surrender.
Current Australasian forces totaled 1.1 million troops, with about 300,000 committed to the European battlefield, 200,000 committed to the Pacific battlefield, and the remaining 600,000 troops stationed in the homeland.
As the most populous country within Australasia's sphere of influence, Borneo currently provided the largest number