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Thanks for me teaching me “navel gazing”, had to look that up :) About your suggestion: I’d associate the Asian theatre with that...

• AndrewOMartin 8y ago
  Where of course "Asian theatre" is entirely unambiguous ;)
• arethuza 8y ago
  Why - I'm pretty sure the Eastern Front was entirely in Europe?
• vesinisa 8y ago
  No, that is the Pacific Theatre. Eastern Front in WWII unambiguously refers to the European theatre of the Axis-Soviet conflict in Western post-war study. The problem with that term is of course that from the Soviet/Russian perspective, the enemy was coming from the West, so they refer to the European theatre as the Great Patriotic War - a rather loaded and mostly unheard of term in the West. So academia has had to come up with new rather obscure neutral terminology like the German-Soviet Conflict or Russo-German War.
• lmm 8y ago
  "Eastern Front" is pretty widely understood I would think, perhaps because there wasn't so much of a single "front" in the pacific theatre? (except for the second Sino-Japanese war)