American victory in the Pacific was far from assured.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Bottom line, no likely masterstroke no single stratagem or killing blow would have defeated the United States. Rather, Japanese commanders should have thought and acted less tactically and more strategically. In so doing they would have improved Japan s chances.
Let s face it. Imperial Japan stood next to no chance of winning a fight to the finish against the United States. Resolve and resources explain why. So long as Americans kept their dander up, demanding that their leaders press on to complete victory, Washington had a mandate to convert the republic s immense industrial potential into a virtually unstoppable armada of ships, aircraft, and armaments. Such a physical mismatch was simply too much for island state Japan with an economy about one-tenth the size of America s to surmount.
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Hidden Toronto: the Comfort Woman Statue
Toronto’s bronze memorial to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery during the Second World War was the third to be unveiled outside Korea By Richard Longley
Apr 25, 2021
What Pyeonghwaui Sonyeosang, also known as the Comfort Woman Statue, to commemorate the suffering of women forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese army
Where In front of the Korean Canadian Cultural Association Centre, 1133 Leslie
Why you should check it out
The 19th-century Prussian general and philosopher Carl von Clausewitz characterized war as the “continuation of state policy by other means.” What did he mean by “other means?” He might have meant the exchange of atrocity, often by people who were otherwise decent and humane.
What if the Soviets Were What Caused Imperial Japan to Surrender to the Allies?
The atomic bombs certainly helped make a difference, but Tokyo was also losing badly to the suddenly losing badly to the suddent Soviet onslaught in occupied China.
Key point: The Soviet Red Army was powerful and Moscow was preparing, with help from Washington, to invade Imperial Japan. Did Tokyo decide it would rather surrender to America than face an invasion by both the United States and the Soviet Union?
To the Soviet military, it is known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Although it had no official name to the Japanese, it has become known in the West as Operation August Storm. It was the greatest defeat in Japanese military history, yet few outside the circles of Japanese and Soviet history are even aware that it occurred. It ensured the end of World War II as much as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did, yet it is often ignored in Western studies of th
For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and more than a few that stained British arms.
Like the Romans, the British fought a variety of enemies. They also had the distinction of being defeated by a variety of enemies, including Americans, Russians, French, Native Americans, Africans, Afghans, Japanese and Germans. Even in defeat, there is something glorious in losing to so many different foes.
As the saying goes, victory has many fathers, but defeat is an orphan. Yet in Britain s case, defeat has multiple sires, from overconfidence to racism. Those Americans who would sneer at the Limeys should be mindful that the same reasons have also resulted in U.S. defeats.
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