The whole war thing is getting really aggravating. All I wanted was a few patches of oil fields and there's none to be found in my land, so I have to go to war with a country that has some. It's very similar to what Diamond says in Chapter 5: History's Have and Have-Nots. But instead of having a competitive advantage of food production, Japan has a comptetive advantage in oil production. So instead of allowing this competitive advantage to happen, I had to take over the land with all the oil so that I would then have the competitive advantage. However it's been a lot harder than expected to do so. Japan is incredibly offensive and wants to take my civilization over just as much as I want theirs. I've captured about 3 cities, which are all I need to provide a sufficient amount of oil for myself, so I keep trying to end the war with Japan and be at peace. But Japan won't allow it so I'm probably in for a long war. They haven't made much advancement to my land, but have mostly been attacking my units defending the cities I've overtaken. It's been a back and forth struggle but I'm far more advanced with artillery and infantry units, and I've slowly been making advancement to the rest of their cities.

After this war ends whether by peace, defeat, or victory, I plan on having this be my last war. There's no need to gain any more land, I'm pretty sure I have almost every resource possible in the game. In addition, I've obtained an oil supply which is necessary for rocketry. My goal is to research rocketry and do whatever else is needed to send the first rocket ship to the moon. So I guess if for whatever reason going to war again is necessary to achieve this goal, I'm going to have to do it. I'm hoping that that's not the case and that from now on I can fully focus on reasearching and improving my civilization to the best of my ability.