Japan’s first mistake was not staying on the porch.
How does this reconcile with Tom Hanks and his recent statements that we fought World War II against “different” people who worshipped “different Gods”, and compared that to the conflict formerly known as the war on terror?
I love history.
I hated it in school because the teachers dont make it interesting.
They focus on obscure meaningless trivia and treaties that were irrelevant to history. But the true story of the big events of history are fascinating...
He’s wrong. First, the Japanese Army wanted to invade the USSR, even in 1941. It was the NAVY that insisted the war go south, for the oil.
Second, Japan achieved its objectives by early 1942. It was only when the U.S refused to talk, and after the Doolittle raid that Japanese naval planning [Coral Sea, Midway/Alaska] led to the defeats that paved the way for Japan’s extinction.
Were there mistakes? You betcha. No Japanese submachine guns [in a war largely fought in jungles], no equivalent to the MG 42, no armor worth the name. Too many ammo types, even in a common caliber. Too much Bushido BS [pilots refuse parachutes, detroyers refuse convoy duty for merchantmen].
But the major mistake was going into war at all. But that might not be all their fault. FDR couldn’t get Hitler to bite, so he used the Japanese occupation of Indochina to force a war.
However, they believed that America lacked the stomach for a long, bloody war. Their expectation was that America would not fight a long bloody war to liberate China and the Philippines and would come to terms with them in 1942. They did not reckon with Americans' outrage at their perfidy.
Japan’s and the Axis’ success and failure was Siberia. Siberia contained all of the land, mineral, timber, and oil resources coveted by Japan. Invading it would have distracted the soviets enough to have allowed the Germans to destroy its armies in the west. In the end it was Japan’s racism towards the Chinese that did not permit them to disengage and turn their armies and ambitions northward.
If you asked 99% of of the sheeple in the US today what was Iwo JIma,they would probably answer some hot new skank rap star
The Japanese had a choice-the Brits, Dutch, and the US shut them off from their oil. It was either fight or surrender. A fool could see that the Japanese would fight. While we eventually would have won, Midway saved us years of fighting.
I have read that Midway truly was a miracle. War colleges have re-enacted the battle on computers tens of thousands of times and they cannote generate a US victory.
We won because we didn’t give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. Japan should have invaded the USSR in 1941 or at least made a feint in that direction. With the USSR out of the War and the USA not in it, there would have been a very different result.
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Thanks Saije.Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the Pearl Harbor attack, predicted in 1941, "We are going to war for oil, and we will lose the war because of oil."Gosh, I wonder why the article author brings that up? /sarcHe warned Japan could only fight for one year and called for peace talks with the U.S. soon after Pearl Harbor. American P-38 fighters shot down Yamamoto's aircraft in 1943, killing the Japanese officer best placed to overthrow the militarist regime.Obviously this was part of the plan by the American war-mongers to make sure peace didn't come about too soon. /sarc |
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The South “blundered” too.
Back in those halcyon, ancient days - now forever lost - when men were men, and women were happy about it.
Oh, Brave, New World!