Why did the British leave Kohima and Imphal "lightly" defended in 1944?
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The main considerations about Kohima and Imphal being lightly defended (which is not actually true, overall the British had a lot of forces there) are:
- The center of Burma was truly considered as a point of importance by both British and Japanese forces
- Imphal is a center of operations, so the British had all their troops there and less in the neighbourhoods, for example less in Kohima
- The British were planning an attack in the Arakan that resulting in the battle of Admin Box: actually, this battle was seen by the Japanese as a diversion in favour of the attack on Imphal
- American and Chinese forces had a strategy of opening a contact with SouthWest China, where American generals hoped to open a new line of contact. This actually occured, but after and because of the weakening caused by the Japanese defeat at Imphal/Kohima
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima
Meanwhile, the commander of the British Fourteenth Army, Lieutenant General William Slim, belatedly realised (partly from Japanese documents that had been captured at Sangshak) that a whole Japanese division was moving towards Kohima.[15] He and his staff had originally believed that, because of the forbidding terrain in the area, the Japanese would only be able to send a regiment to take Kohima.[1][16][17]
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