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2/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 2/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

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🗓️ 11 February 2023

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2/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 2/8: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. Symonds

https://www.amazon.com/Nimitz-War-Command-Leadership-Harbor-ebook/dp/B09Y64QMZT

Only days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped Chester W. Nimitz to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. Nimitztransformed the devastated and dispirited Pacific fleet into the most powerful and commanding naval force in history.

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This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Bachelorette with Professor Craig Simon.

0:39.7

Emeritus Professor of History from the US Naval Academy is new book is Nimitz at War Command

0:44.9

Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. This is a book that can be used by current officers

0:52.3

in the US Navy and retired and future to understand the relationships between the men who were

0:58.2

given a task without adequate resources to restart the United States Navy in the Pacific

1:05.5

after the Pearl Harbor attack immediately Ernest King the Comanche says attack attack attack.

1:12.3

He wants to get out there and punch. Nimitz doesn't have much of a fleet now. The battleships

1:17.5

who had been regarded as the strength of all navies the gun club are either a four

1:24.0

of the numbers at very badly damaged or sunk including the Arizona for badly damaged.

1:29.6

So he has aircraft carriers. What is it that King wants him to do and this is a good

1:35.1

time to introduce Chester Nimitz's idea of calculated risk professor.

1:40.6

Yeah, calculated risk. It's an interesting concept. Nimitz came up with it when he was

1:45.4

still a student at the US Naval War College in the 1920s and it's a relatively simple concept.

1:51.6

It is that you don't take a risk that's greater than the likely benefit that will result

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