8/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 8/8: 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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8/8: #China spying prepares the same Pacific War battlefield: 8/8: 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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| 0:40.5 | Nimitz at War Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. Ernest King Comench, |
| 0:46.6 | who is always present 16 times they meet. King's messages to Nimitz and Nimitz's messages |
| 0:54.0 | to King. The professor is quoted throughout the book. Now they're debating in person |
| 0:59.1 | and also by wire about what is to be done about the Japanese homelands who will not surrender. |
| 1:06.6 | The opinion I take at professor from Nimitz and King's point of view is blockade will |
| 1:11.5 | force them to the peace table. |
| 1:14.7 | I think that's true. I think naval officers at almost every level did not believe in |
| 1:19.7 | invasion of the homelands was worth the risk. We are back to calculated risk. It would cost |
| 1:27.2 | so much and we've all heard the line. Oh, it would cost 100,000 American killed. Very |
| 1:31.4 | likely perhaps more. Fewer considered the fact that it would have cost possibly millions |
| 1:39.9 | of Japanese to die because Japanese culture was such that surrender was so obnoxious that |
| 1:45.9 | no Japanese soldier, no Japanese participant in the war at any level could honorably surrender |
| 1:53.7 | himself. Therefore you must fight to the death. So if everyone in Japan fights to the |
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