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"Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, American planners correctly assumed that the main Japanese thrust in the Philippines would be directed against Luzon. Under War Plan Orange 3, American and Filipino forces were to hold Manila and Bataan, denying the harbor to the Japanese until reinforcements arrived, which was expected to take six months. Later revisions demanded by MacArthur, under a new plan called Rainbow 5, called for him to hold the entire archipelago, harass Japanese communications, mount air raids against nearby enemy bases on Formosa and in Southeast Asia, and work with the Netherlands and Great Britain to hold off the Japanese. It was an ambitious—and totally impossible—plan.
The American units were, by and large, peacetime garrison troops while, aside from the Scouts, the Philippine troops were inadequately trained. Responsibility for the Filipinos’ poor training lay with MacArthur and his staff, who trained recruits in small camps scattered throughout the islands and then sent them home rather than forming them into battalion and regimental cadres.
If MacArthur’s training schedule was bad, his vision for defense of the islands was worse."
The American units were, by and large, peacetime garrison troops while, aside from the Scouts, the Philippine troops were inadequately trained. Responsibility for the Filipinos’ poor training lay with MacArthur and his staff, who trained recruits in small camps scattered throughout the islands and then sent them home rather than forming them into battalion and regimental cadres.
If MacArthur’s training schedule was bad, his vision for defense of the islands was worse."
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Lea
Had you ever read about his predictive historical efforts about WW2 in Asia and the Pacific at all? If not, well worth the time, just thought to mention it, hope is of interest, many thanks.
Had you ever read about his predictive historical efforts about WW2 in Asia and the Pacific at all? If not, well worth the time, just thought to mention it, hope is of interest, many thanks.
Homer Lea (November 17, 1876 – November 1, 1912), was an American adventurer, author and geopolitical strategist. He is today best known for his involvement with Chinese reform and revolutionary movements in the early twentieth century and as a close advisor to Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 Chinese Republican revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, and for his writings about China and geopolitics.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Understand, many thanks, look at the other one I'd also just sent, I think you'll understand the relevance of that one as well to the Pacific in WW2, hope both are of interest, once again.
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MacA had hours of warning that we were art war and the Army, Air Corps and the Naval forces were all caught flatfooted and unprepared .Then we lost the PI to a force of inferior size.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Tsuji
If you haven't heard of this one either, trust me he was major bad news in WW2. He apparently singlehandedly engineered the fall of British Singapore, helped plan Pearl Harbor to no small extent or pushed for it, engaged in cannibalism or so I'd read involving a downed Americam aircrew member, or sonthe story goes, then spied for the Chinese, and I'd even read was rumored or thought to have helped North Vietnam. If you want to read a fascinating account of one of the really, truly bad ones in Japan during WW2, who aosomgot totally away with it, got elected to the Japanese Diet, their legislature, and still has a statue of himself, I gather, somewhere in the country, trust me, no understanding of Japanese role in WW2 is complete without understanding this monster. He also, I'd read, almost singlehandedly engineered the Nanking Massacre, and God knows what other atrocities, from all I'd read thus far, in many ways, he equals or exceeds the very worst of the Germans firing that period, and yet is almost totally forgotten today, from aoo accounts, I just thought you might find the story a fascinating addendum to Pacific WW2 history, in many ways, a good!any of the other WW2 war criminals both European and Pacific were choirmboys by contrast with this wretch, so far as I've been able to gather, honest, hope is also of interest, be most eager to know your thoughts, many thanks, again.
If you haven't heard of this one either, trust me he was major bad news in WW2. He apparently singlehandedly engineered the fall of British Singapore, helped plan Pearl Harbor to no small extent or pushed for it, engaged in cannibalism or so I'd read involving a downed Americam aircrew member, or sonthe story goes, then spied for the Chinese, and I'd even read was rumored or thought to have helped North Vietnam. If you want to read a fascinating account of one of the really, truly bad ones in Japan during WW2, who aosomgot totally away with it, got elected to the Japanese Diet, their legislature, and still has a statue of himself, I gather, somewhere in the country, trust me, no understanding of Japanese role in WW2 is complete without understanding this monster. He also, I'd read, almost singlehandedly engineered the Nanking Massacre, and God knows what other atrocities, from all I'd read thus far, in many ways, he equals or exceeds the very worst of the Germans firing that period, and yet is almost totally forgotten today, from aoo accounts, I just thought you might find the story a fascinating addendum to Pacific WW2 history, in many ways, a good!any of the other WW2 war criminals both European and Pacific were choirmboys by contrast with this wretch, so far as I've been able to gather, honest, hope is also of interest, be most eager to know your thoughts, many thanks, again.
Masanobu Tsuji (辻 政信, Tsuji Masanobu, 11 October 1901 – ca.1961[1]) was a Japanese army officer and politician. During World War II, he was an important tactical planner in the Imperial Japanese Army; he developed the detailed plans for the successful Japanese invasion of Malaya at the start of the war.[2] He also helped plan and lead the final Japanese offensive during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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