Posted on 12/07/2021 9:26:40 AM PST by MAGA2017
What if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor eighty years ago today?
The attack is today regarded as an enormous tactical success, but a strategic failure. Several older battleships were damaged or destroyed, but the treachery of the attack spurred the United States to fully mobilize for war and to pursue that war with a vengeful fury. The attack also pushed the United States to adopt innovative tactics that would quickly overturn Japanese advantages in air and naval technology. What other military options did Japan have besides an attack on Pearl Harbor?
It would have been extremely difficult for Japan to avoid attacking the United States in the context of a general offensive into Southeast Asia. While Washington had stopped short of making an ironclad security guarantee to British and Dutch possessions in Asia, it had made clear to Tokyo that it did not welcome further aggression. The US had cut Japan off from steel and oil, putting tremendous economic pressure on the Japanese war machine.
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> What if we could go back intime and kill FDR when he was a baby? <
I’d advise against that. For all his faults, FDR performed very well as a wartime commander-in-chief. In particular, he understood that the Axis had to surrender unconditionally. No half-way measures. And while FDR set the grand strategy, he let his generals carry things out as they thought best.
Contrast that with the idiotic wartime behavior of LBJ and George W. Bush.
They would have gotten their @sses handed to them. Not even the worst insane racists of Japan considered an invasion.
What if we could go back intime and kill FDR when he was a baby?
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Because you only wounded him, in the leg, and he is wheel chair bound, although the press hides it because he is a democrat. Good job more rangetime 4u
Hubris.
They were having lots of success so they convinced themselves that they could eliminate the US from the region in one strike.
The cabinet in Japan was a mess with some real madmen at the helm and they prevailed.
“Splash the Zeros”
What if they weren’t “coaxed” in to it?
That’s basically a one-sentence summary of the article.
A blast from the past!.....................
Now yer talkin’!
I recommend, Day of Deceit, by admiral Robert Stinnett.
I loved the “Insubordinate and Churlish!”
Yup.
President Huey Long?
What a nightmare!
What if we let Japan have China, would Mao and the CCP have happened?
Mr. Weiss saved the country.
“I like to know what would America had done if the Big Island had flip over during the attack?”
Nah, that couldn’t have happened. See all those big heavy ships so close to the land were exerting tremendous downward pressure on the ocean bed beneath them and thatg would prevent the Island from leaning over enough to flip over.
Hank Johnson told me this.
Japan was our ally in WWI, and though we stiffed them in the Treaty of Versailles, the Showa Emperor (Hirohito) could have chosen to side with the allies all the way up until 1937, and he would have had the Kuriles, Korea, Taiwan, and Manchuria, along with access to all the supplies from the East Indies, the Philippines, and the US.
An alliance of Britain, the US, Nationalist China, and Japan would have ruled the seven seas and controlled most of Asia, the Western Hemisphere, Africa, and Western Europe, leaving Hitler and Stalin to fight over the land and resources between their countries—no WWII.
Once Japan invaded China in 1937, however, all that went out the window: China was our friend, and Japan became increasingly gruesome in its quest to conquer the Nationalists, leaving the door open to Mao and the Communists to reap whatever spoils were left over. Japan’s alliance with Nazi Germany became its only option, as did the only way Japan could enter WWII, by a surprise attack that hopefully (to them) would cripple America’s defenses before the war began. When that didn’t happen, their defeat became inevitable.
Exactly. We would be draw in quickly anyway.
Pearl Harbor was an attempt to limit the US naval power in the pacific.
It didn’t work
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