It is important to keep in mind what is from all reports are the ramshackle nature and spotty maintenance standards for equipment and the poor morale...
I know it is sign of native wit to say Faux News, but do you ever wonder if you are closing yourself off to an alternative source of news? I snipped...
20th Century Fox fired fabled Japanese director Akira Kurosawa midway through the making of Tora, Tora, Tora. From Wikipedia: "The budget was also...
I worked for many years with Joe Rosenthal, who took the picture of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. He always resisted any attempt to cast him as a...
Everyone in these pictures became a member of the Resistance after the war....
This seems about right: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ … What the Obama administration and the...
It is hard to put oneself in the mind of the Japanese nearly three-quarters of a century ago, particularly in light of the need in the immediate...
Very interesting. If I'm not mistaken, the Japanese cabinet by law had to have a minister from both services and each had veto power over anything...
Excellent discussion....
The greater part of MacArthur's reputation was attributable to the finesse with which he and his fawning circle of aides -- more a court than a...
The Brian Williams story reminds me of a far bigger one that seems to have gone down the memory hole. When Lyndon Johnson was a new congressman from...
There was a class distinction at work in the hostility between the Japanese army and navy. The army recruited from the rural peasantry, which was...
You are right, relations between the IJN and the IJA were venomous to the point of murderous. At one point, Admiral Yamamoto was ordered to sea in...
A reason the Midway defeat was so catastrophic was the Japanese believed in creating an elite corps of flyers, the best in the world. Instead of...
He will forfeit back pay and future benefits and that's it!? Wasn't desertion in the face of the enemy at one time a capital offense where the best...
It's all...Greek to me, but thanks.
I think the Poles first broke Enigma, and their work was sent to England for further study before Poland went under. The Germans simply didn't...
"The Rape of Nanking" is a good reference for understanding the bestiality of the Japanese in WWII for those who don't believe the accounts of the...
Estimates based on the long slog to take Okinawa were that the Allies would suffer up to a million casualties in conquering the Home Islands and four...
George Orwell wrote, 'He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." Putin admires Russia's Stalinist...
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