Bruno sighed in relief after the peace had been negotiated. How the deconstruction of the Japanese Empire unfolded was not his concern. He was not a politician; he was a soldier, and the war was over.
Because of this, Bruno found himself on a flight back to Innsbruck. He had been away for too long. Nearly three years in total. From the fall of 1929 to the summer of 1932, the war had waged.
Could it have been concluded sooner? Most certainly; but that would have required moving greater assets from the Fatherland to the Pacific cause. And that would not have the intended effect Bruno desired.
Germany had won the war, with Russian support. They had done so entirely with their eastern colonial forces, not a shred of support from the main army or the naval assets designed to counter Britain, France, and America in the Atlantic.
That was why the war had lasted so long: limited manpower, limited resources, small gains that accumulated over years.
