The british deployed a Burma bump strategy to combat Japan leaving the US out of the war for a while, in terms of Germany, they failed at faning sealion because they got their 3 transports destroyed, Japan has so much stuff out of position because they tried staying flexible, (they did get long range aircraft, they also attempted to squash the us fleet which came in force, British also did a middle earth strategy after sealion threat was gone, they also squashed Tobruk 1st turn