U.S. Military Can't Even Fight One War Today

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  1. AboveAlpha

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    I should have said Imperial Navy Leadership.

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    Who thought that, other then Admiral Yamamoto?

    Well, there was also Admiral Nagamo, but he opposed it for differing reasons. Not that he did not think that Japan would win, he simply thought it was not needed. He believed that taking over the Dutch, French, and British colonies in the region would be enough, and that taking Australia was more important then the Philippines. He thought that the Philippines would eventually fall through isolation and political means and not military ones. He believed that the Isolationinsts in the US would prevent any war in the Pacific, short of an open attack upon their forces.

    And in many ways, the IJN were even more "hard corps" then the IJA was when it came to believing and living the Bushido.

    Remember, the Army only embraced "suicide charges" when it was obvious that the only other choice was to surrender. Other then that, they would fight to the last man and the last bullet.

    The Navy on the other hand embraced suicide attacks. Kamakazi fighters, Baka bombs, and submarines. Even in the early stages you had IJN Officers begging for the right to, then finally disobeying orders in order to kill themselves in battle. The IJN Leadership only opposed it for the loss of the equipment used, not the personnel themselves. Finally they agreed, because it was becoming obvious that pilots were ignoring orders not to kill themselves.

    I have read a great many books on the Pacific War, and other then Admiral Yamamoto, I can't think of any senior officers in the Navy that opposed the war. In fact, the Navy was the main arm used to expand and prosecute the war. Coral Sea, Midway, Guam, Pearl Harbor, the list simply goes on and on of IJN offensives. If they were opposed to it, then why all the attempts by the Navy to expand it to even more area and countries?

    Of course, I am also aware of the few "scholars" that pose opposing views. Like Dr. Jeffrey Record. But since he has a long list of writing books where the US should never have gotten involved and was doomed from the start in loosing the war, it is hard to take him all that serious.
     

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