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To: Mrs. Don-o

By this doctrine then, Japan prevails in the war. See Manila for a city fight against the Japanese.


130 posted on 08/20/2013 7:08:15 PM PDT by xone
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To: xone; schurmann
By this doctrine then, Japan prevails in the war.

Xone: Not at all. Anticipating the invasion of the southern island of Kyushu, the Japanese prepared Operation Decision (Ketsu-Go) which envisaged the deployment of over 2 million troops along the coast to repel Allied landings. Using the atomic bomb on these massed troops, causing say ten times the amount of (military)troop deaths on Kyushu, than the number of civilian deaths at Hiroshima + Nagasaki, would have been justified.

This may clarify: #83.

133 posted on 08/21/2013 11:05:39 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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