263 | Steven McGregor: Will the U.S. Win the Next Battle of Midway?

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Steven McGregor, co-author with Brendan Simms of The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway, joins The Realignment to discuss how the lessons of the U.S. victory in the Pacific apply to today, how the Battle of Midway revealed the country's fundamental strengths, the state of naval readiness, and the new challenge to the status quo in the Asia-Pacific region.

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0:44.4	On to today's episode. I hope all of our state side listeners had a great
0:48.0	fourth of July holiday weekend. Though today's episode isn't coming out on July 4th,
0:53.5	the topic is all about America, it's past and what it means for the future.
0:58.0	I'm speaking of Stephen McGregor, co-author of the Silver Waterfall,
1:02.6	How America won the Pacific War at Midway. Quick refresher, the battle of Midway took place
1:08.4	on June 4th, 1942, six months after the US was struck by Japan at Pearl Harbor.
1:15.0	Over the course of the battle, the US sank four Japanese carriers at the cost of one US
1:19.5	carrier, turning the tide of the war in the Pacific.
1:23.2	And Stephen and Brendan, his co-authors telling, the battle came down to strategy and
1:27.5	intelligence and technological innovation merged with the skills and training of the American
1:32.8	pilots. Plus, fundamental American strengths such as our defense industrial base that almost
1:38.3	certainly made a victory in the Pacific inevitable. All of this is relevant today because China
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