[wretchard]

I can understand this woman's resentment, but her suit is better directed against the politicians who negotiated the Naval Holiday Treaty of 1925. That treaty was consumated at the behest of Great Britain, who, impoverished by the World War 1 could build no new ships. The solution was to freeze the status quo. The US junked the superdreadnoughts building in the yads and imposed a moratorium on the fortification of the Philippine Islands.

Faced with the facts that it could neither defend nor succor the islands given the restrictions, te Navy actually wanted to withdraw all substantial Army garrisons from the Phililppines (see War Plan Orange). In any scenario, it could only be recovered two to three years after hostilities had commenced.

Leonard Wood and other Army men with ties to the Philippines refused to withdraw the garrisons. In hindsight, the Navy proved right, and the Philippines was the scene of the largest surrender of US forces in history, though not in shame.

[Mike Darancette]

Leonard Wood and other Army men with ties to the Philippines refused to withdraw the garrisons.

Churchill managed to get the troops off the Beaches of Dunkirk - Nuff Said.

[RobbyS]

I have read in many places that the Navy said that the Phillipines could not be held. One has only to look at the map to see why.