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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Victory over Japan
As history has repeatedly shown throughout the sixty years henceforth, in the days leading up to, and including, December 7, 1941, the official military headdress of the Imperial Japanese High Command was the dunce cap. Without any doubt, the planning and execution of the Japanese naval attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor ranks as one of the greatest acts of colossal and premeditated stupidity ever achieved by men in uniform. Not even the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was as recklessly foolish, and Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States on December 8, 1941, though just as dumb, at least comes attached with a credible defense: He was psychotically self-delusional and harboured all the characteristics of a madman.
Granted, hindsight is 20/20, but so sometimes is foresight – this being one of those times. It doesn’t take a terrible prescience of mind to know that one should not attack a more powerful foe, particularly one as powerful, geographically isolated and untapped in industrial might as the United States. Even if they were completely successful and had knocked out America’s carriers in the Pacific as they had anticipated, did they actually believe they could have done so permanently? If they did so based on seeking only a temporary advantage, how could they convince themselves that consolidation of Japanese power in the Far East, would ever be a match for the consolidation of American power in the Pacific? If they believed we would sue for peace rather than engage in a protracted titanic struggle for victory, what in our history ever gave them the idea that we had no honour?
That being said, only hindsight can give us the actual numbers. Between 1942 and 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy managed to commission an additional 13 carriers, a feat possible for the most part without any kind of aerial bombardment or harassment of their industrial base. In the same period of time, the United States commissioned 137, a staggering ten-fold advantage in the ability to project long range naval power and transport large armies where needed. Though VJ Day is remembered as August 15, 1945, and the formal surrender took place a couple of weeks later on September 2, history has always shown that the Japanese effectively capitulated on December 7, 1941, “a date that will live in infamy”. For on that day, the Japanese surrendered their minds.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 1:48 p.m. | LINKS |
As history has repeatedly shown throughout the sixty years henceforth, in the days leading up to, and including, December 7, 1941, the official military headdress of the Imperial Japanese High Command was the dunce cap. Without any doubt, the planning and execution of the Japanese naval attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor ranks as one of the greatest acts of colossal and premeditated stupidity ever achieved by men in uniform. Not even the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union was as recklessly foolish, and Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States on December 8, 1941, though just as dumb, at least comes attached with a credible defense: He was psychotically self-delusional and harboured all the characteristics of a madman.Granted, hindsight is 20/20, but so sometimes is foresight – this being one of those times. It doesn’t take a terrible prescience of mind to know that one should not attack a more powerful foe, particularly one as powerful, geographically isolated and untapped in industrial might as the United States. Even if they were completely successful and had knocked out America’s carriers in the Pacific as they had anticipated, did they actually believe they could have done so permanently? If they did so based on seeking only a temporary advantage, how could they convince themselves that consolidation of Japanese power in the Far East, would ever be a match for the consolidation of American power in the Pacific? If they believed we would sue for peace rather than engage in a protracted titanic struggle for victory, what in our history ever gave them the idea that we had no honour?
That being said, only hindsight can give us the actual numbers. Between 1942 and 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy managed to commission an additional 13 carriers, a feat possible for the most part without any kind of aerial bombardment or harassment of their industrial base. In the same period of time, the United States commissioned 137, a staggering ten-fold advantage in the ability to project long range naval power and transport large armies where needed. Though VJ Day is remembered as August 15, 1945, and the formal surrender took place a couple of weeks later on September 2, history has always shown that the Japanese effectively capitulated on December 7, 1941, “a date that will live in infamy”. For on that day, the Japanese surrendered their minds.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 1:48 p.m. | LINKS |
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