Yes, this is an important decision.

Macarthur is dead, so half of the pro-Pacific team is gone.

There is another issue, though, and that is that the BRITISH will be spoiling to build a new fleet in the Indian Ocean by early 1944 and will be massively focussed on retaking Singapore.

And gentlemen, they have the shipping in FFO to do it. Only just, I think, but the British will be VERY anxious to divert amphibs from the Med to the IO, and secondarily to give shoestring support to the Imperial spoiling offensive out of Darwin into the NEI.

FFO is assuming a very different strategic shape to OTL.

Cheers: Mark