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Our warning time to prepare for conflict in the western Pacific has expired. The clock is ticking.

There are probably two main reasons to visit Newport, RI. The first is to marvel at the opulence of the houses built ...

Let’s dust off those old archives.

In a forgotten moment of history, over ten thousand U.S. soldiers publicly surrendered to Japanese forces in the Philippines.

Cruelty: Not Every American Effort in the Pacific Was Victorious The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: what went wrong? The answer is pretty much everything. Heres What You Need To Remember: And then there was silence. “Tell Joe, wherever he is, to give ’em hell for us,” said the radio signal. “My love to you all. God bless you and keep you. Sign my name, and tell mother how you heard from me. Stand by.” And then there was silence. On the morning of May 6, 1942, U...

The Bataan troops fought bravely and inflicted heavy losses. But unless the U.S. Navy could instantly resurrect the sunken battleships at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines were doomed.

Times have changed but maybe tactics dont have to.  Heres What You Need to Remember: Now, likely U.S. political and strategic aims raise a troublesome prospect: that the U.S. Pacific Fleet may not enjoy the luxury of what Miller terms a “cautionary” advance across the Pacific. Reconquering the Philippines or Guam could wait; today the United States may have to win quickly or not at all. Everyone says it: Newport, as in where the U.S. Naval War College is located and where yours truly work...

Failure at Philippines: How 12,000 U.S. Soldiers Surrendered to Japan Under the cameras of Japanese photographers and the contemptuous glare of Japanese officers, Gen. Jonathan Wainwright surrendered the last of the U.S. garrison in the Philippines. Heres What You Need To Remember: Nonetheless, the Bataan troops fought bravely and inflicted heavy losses. But unless the U.S. Navy could instantly resurrect the sunken battleships at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines were doomed. Backed by heavy air s...

Manila is only two thousand miles from Japan, but five thousand miles from Pearl Harbor. Heres What You Need To Remember: Outflanked and outmaneuvered, MacArthur ordered Plan Orange, a delaying action by rearguards while the bulk of his forces moved into the defenses of the Bataan Peninsula near Manila. Covered by detachments of U.S. and Filipino troops, including some M3 Stuart light tanks, eighty thousand troops and twenty thousand civilians made it into Bataan. “Tell Joe, wherever he is, ...

War Plan Orange was wise and ahead of its time. Key point: America needs to plan for every contigency. And that means learning from past scenarios and think carefully about how to win a possible war with Beijing. Everyone says it: Newport, as in where the U.S. Naval War College is located and where yours truly works, underwent a golden age of strategy-making during the interwar decades. It must usher in a new golden age to prevail in strategic competition against the likes of China and Russia....