Get Multinational Warfighting Right, Before It Matters
The United States and its allies need to develop a combined command structure in the first island chain before the shooting starts.
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The United States and its allies need to develop a combined command structure in the first island chain before the shooting starts.
On 6 December President Roosevelt played his last card for peace-a personal message to Emperor Hirohito, begging him for the sake of humanity to withdraw the military and naval forces from southern Indochina which threatened the Philippines, Malaya, Thailand and "the hundreds of islands of the East Indies." Hirohito did not want war with the United States, but he wanted still less to lose his throne. Showa Restoration would have been turned into Showa Deposition if he had refused to go along with Tojo at this point. So he said nothing.