Don’t change your mind too many times? Bombing mission, or fighter mission. Hmm. Let me think about that for a while.
As many have said, “peacetime generals are always fighting the last war instead of the next one.”
Midway was a very unique battle. I’m not sure how much it can teach China aside from “make sure you break the enemy’’s encryption”.
They learned that spreading the rot from within an enemy country is much easier than a pitched battle.
In the age of missles and electronics, are navy warships little more than floating coffins? Can defenses cope against overwhelming numbers let alone hypersonics? The old plan to fight the last war syndrom. Or am I foolishly mistaken?
The only people who read Business Insider are the mommies of the aborted feces who write for this trash neo-commie website.
A W-88 to your shipyard would effect your productivity.
I think China’s ultimate goal is to “get even” with Japan.
The Japanese did put out a good scouting line to detect the carriers sailing from Pearl Harbor. And their arrival was based upon the Japanese not expecting the US fleet to depart Pearl Harbor until AFTER their initial strike on Midway.
Unfortunately the subs arrival at their scouting line was after the US fleet had already sailed to “Point Luck” and was “behind” the scouting line.
And that was due to the code breaking at Pearl, thus permitting the US Navy “to get inside the Japanese decision cycle.”
The Chinese simply need to stand, watch and laugh as the US self-destructs
The shortest explanation is the US kept all their abilities hidden from the Japanese and the Japanese followed their doctrine even as the doctrine started working against them.
US struggled initially but we denied them their full capabilities by harassing their fleet with constant attacks. They didn’t have the time to arrange their forces they had nor the forces needed to keep on the offense.
Various US bomber and fighter groups harried the Japanese protective fighter cover over their carriers for several hours. Finally, the Japanese fighters had to be recovered while the Japanese staff debated over which bombs to arm their craft for their second strike. That’s when the US Navy dive bombers found and hit them: with scant opposition in the air and enemy carriers full of fueling aircraft laden with bombs on their top and middle decks. Three carriers were wrecked in a matter of minutes.
The Democrat and Republican leadership costs far less than one carrier.
China buys politicians.
Have better intelligence gathering capabilities?
Never take on the world’s biggest industrial power (at the time). Might be a lesson for US to consider.
China is prime for a revolution from within.
They showed their hand in Hong Kong.
I am not sure what lessons can be learned from Midway. There were elements of being over arrogant, certainly. The results of that battle, I think most historians would agree, was due far more to luck and sheer courage and definitely having Providence on your side, rather than any particular guidance that can be taught.
The U.S. can field three powerful fleets & their crews who have been outfitted with, and highly trained in, the latest techniques of caring, diversity, climate-preserving technologies, and wokeness...
When the chinks see those attacking planes and rockets with their emblazoned LGBT and BLM flags flying over dropping rose petals, they will immediately surrender...
We will kick pat those commie asses...
At the Naval War college many yeas ago I witnessed a computer simulation of the battle of Midway. The tech said no matter how different you start to play the simulation and if you use the same order of battle as in the real battle of midway, then the IJN always seems to win. He said you can’t program luck.