That book proves FDR allowed the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor simply to get us into WW II, but the author says that was the “right thing to do?”
I haven’t read this book but it’s not the first to cast Roosevelt as deliberately encouraging war with Japan, which really is revisionist history. No doubt FDR considered the Philippines as a likely strike point if there was to be an attack. And there is considerable evidence that shows the president expected a war with only Germany.