Astonishingly, Japan Had No Hope Of Victory Over America(Ep.1)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- (Part:1) Dive into the riveting story of the events leading up to the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. This comprehensive account takes you behind the scenes to explore the strategic decisions, intelligence failures, and human drama that culminated in one of the most significant moments of World War II. Discover the meticulous planning by the Japanese, the missed opportunities by the Americans, and the devastating impact of the surprise assault. Perfect for history enthusiasts, this detailed narrative sheds light on the complexities and consequences of a day that changed the world. Join us as we unravel the intricacies of Pearl Harbor and its enduring legacy. #america #japan #worldwar2 #pacificwar #audiobook
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to part 1 of an enthralling journey through the heart of World War II's Pacific Theater. Welcome to our deep dive into the dramatic events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor! In this video, we'll take you behind the scenes to uncover the strategic decisions, intelligence oversights, and intense human drama that set the stage for this pivotal moment in World War II. You'll discover the meticulous planning by the Japanese, the critical missed opportunities by the Americans, and the devastating impact of the surprise assault. Perfect for history buffs, this captivating narrative reveals the complexities and far-reaching consequences of a day that changed the course of history. Stay tuned as we unravel the story of Pearl Harbor and its enduring legacy!
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Japan was fighting for a negotiated settlement, that was favorable to them. The Americans, Australians, and their allies, we're determined they would never get it. The outcome was inevitable.
The terms of unconditional surrender came out of War Plan Orange. It is not recorded as to why, nor whom among the Navy planners suggested it.
Portraying Yamamoto as a reluctant warrior has its roots in movies, not reality. Every single iJN and US Navy scholar that I’ve spoken to agrees that there is no basis in fact that Yamamoto ever said “I’m fearful that we’ve awoke a sleeping giant” or similar words to this effect. That was simply a line in a movie that his character (not him) said. This includes postwar attempts by surviving japanese writers to make him a relatable figure.
Yamamoto was the mastermind behind the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour and (like a modern day terrorist) had absolutely no issues with murdering thousands of Americans (military or regular citizens) in their sleep. He wasn’t a redeemable person and there’s good reason as to why Nimitz and Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs wanted him dead. The attempt by some modern day writers to make him a romantic warrior and redeemable character simply because he attended college in the US is garbage. If you want to believe that Yamamoto has a soft spot in his heart for the US then you are believing a lie, no matter how many times it’s stated in movies. He was jealous and envious of the US’s position as a world leader and sought to wage war to enslave innocent people from countries in the Pacific and steal their natural resources all for the glory of Japan because he believed it was Japan’s destiny.
Good post. Dispenses with the myths and states clearly the reality of who Yamamoto was and what he represented.
Say It. Here are two more. Rommel and Lee. Rommel was a terrible general. He was able to take some advantage, but he got a failing grade in logistics and grand strategy. He was fighting for a regime of horrible ideals. Most like to say, he wasn't a Nazi, but he was the head of Hitler's personal bodyguard. Now, rethink that proposition. Lee lost the big showdown. Proportionally, he always had high casualties he could not afford. The Union, like the US in WWII, was growing a big machine and had problems learning how to use it. Lee took advantage of a series of idiot opponents. Let's not forget, he was fighting for the right to keep people enslaved. How can you idealize that? Right on Yamamoto. He won essentially one battle, the other "victories" were rolling in on small garrisons isolated without hope of support. How "brilliant" was it to bomb Pearl Harbor, a garrison, not a war without warning. His plans were always ridiculous with three or four axis of advance.
@@blainedunlap4242Another factoid is that the Pearl Harbor attack should have failed. There were a dozen warnings, and if American dispositions had been even slightly less bone-headed, the first wave would have faced 250 P-40s not on the ground but at 15,000 feet, and would have been massacred.
Hey Blain, good analysis. However, Grant had 2 Confederate Generals as pawl bearers at his funeral. Grant bore no anamis toward the Confederacy. I follow his lead in this regard. Best to you, Joe r@@blainedunlap4242
The Japanese showed an astonishing lack of understanding of America and the Americans. When they attacked the idea of a negotiated surrender or settlement by the USA was off the table until the complete and utter collapse of the Japanese. Americans didn’t want to get involved in the wars of the Europeans AGAIN. Americans were merchants and wanted to conduct business not war. To this day that is what America wants. We’ve patrolled the seas to protect our business interests. We have troops in Europe and Japan/Korea to keep the peace. That’s it.
Japan had absolutely no chance of victory vs America.
You can always depend on this cocksure, overconfident opinion being expressed about the Pacifi War with Japan.
In fact, Japan had huge advantages in men, material and fighting experience from 1941-1943. The American victory at Midway was lucky, lucky lucky after the inability of American aircraft to launch coordinated attacks again the Japanese carriers. The massacre of American torpedo bombers was just one of several such errors.
American forces were hugely stretched in the Guadalcanal and Solomon Islands campaigns, and the IJN often fought withe notable success against the USN.
And the daunting willingness of the Japanese army to die if they could take some Americans with them created huge and daunting casualties for the United States at Saipan, Iwo Jim and Okinawa, among other places.
Innovative tactics such as the Kamikaze attacks created great harm and worry for the USN and for political leaders right up to Truman. Indeed, Truman's Potsdam Declaration was not an unequivocal demand for unconditional surrender, and proposed limitations on American occupation of Japan, for example. And the United States accepted a continuing role for the Japanese Emperor ----one of the smartest moves in the war.
It is quite apparent that Truman found the prospect of two invasions of the Japanese home islands to be daunting. He, too, was looking for a way to end the war.
The idea that the United States might have quit before then, accepting a compromise peace must be considered in the light of the Vietnam War, when the United States lost 55,000 killed in the war and then stood by while North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam with tanks and completed it's conquest of all of Vietnam. It didn't happen, but the Japanese gave it a hell of a try. And the idea that a compromise peace might have occurred is not unthinkable.
The United States had absolutely no chance of victory vs Britain in 1776.
Ho Chi Minh had absolutely no chance of victory vs the United States.
Afghanistan had absolutely no chance of victory vs USSR. OR the United States.
In the video, Yamamoto is described as willing to risk utter defeat in the Pearl Harbor attack.
However, when it occurred, far less than that was actually risked. Rather than engaging in repeated attacks to destroy fuel depots, submarine bases and such, only the two planned, initial attacks were carried out.
Suppose those Japanese carriers had indeed risked all, waiting for the American carriers to return or searching them out to attack. That would have been a lot closer to Yamamoto willingness to risk utter defeat in order to gain a decisive victory.
I can't imagine what they were thinking?
Who is the old rummie panhandling at the start of the video?
What this author isn't saying that is that after MIdway, the Japanese evened the score and sank or SEVERELY damaged all but one of the US's carriers in the Pacific, except for the Enterprise , which only was only moderately damaged. For two years, the Allies were losing and losing badly. In 42 or 43 total Allied shipping loses totaled 1600 ships AND their cargos. While in Europe, there were about a dozen times HItler had the war won, but thank GOD , Hitler intervened and managed to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
Some of those US carriers they sank 3 or 4 times, lol. 😂
Mark, your getting all your information from German general memars althat sought to write themselves in a positive light. Watch those in economics and logistics and you will realize the Germans lost the second they did not get a peace treaty with Britain. They were on a massive oil crisis, they were running defficits in the millions of tons in 41. They ran out of oil in late 41. They used all oil created for 1/3 of there forces to go into the South to get the oil fields in 42. (just a fyi H wanted to focus exclusively into the South for 41 for this exact reason but the war generals only wanted to do battle and surround pockets to wipe out. They lied to H and went North and by then the lines and logistics were all ready set). The Japanese were put in a no win senario as Well. They would have also run out of oil in mid 42 if they had done nothing and not gone into the Dutch East Indies to get the oil. This allowed them some breathing but again the were getting butched and could never send out there battleships due to the oil the drank like a fat kid with soda. Building oil walls takes 6 months to a year and refinneries take many years... Such a most were destroyed before the Japanese landed. There's a reason ww2 is called the first oil war. Germany tried to counter by doing synthetics but it cost so much and it Litterally was a vast chunk of there economy was tied into making synthetic oil brim 1933 to 1939 but it was not enough. Once the allies broke through and destroyed the refinneries in 1944 by air attacks it was all gg. Was gg in 41 anyways once they ran out and were now running off the tap with no reserves.
Actually, there was never even one time, much less a “dozen”, when Hitler “had the war won”. And the idea that if Hitler had only listened to his generals, the Germans would have pulled it off, though actively promoted (self-servingly) by these same generals after the war, turns out to be pure bs.
In fact, Barbarossa was poorly conceived and underresourced. The Germans simply had not understood that warfare in the operational depths of even just the western Soviet Union with few and bad roads (mostly unpaved), undeveloped infrastructure, single-line railroads of a different gauge from the German one etc. etc. was not going to be anything like warfare in Western Europe or even Poland.
As for the Japanese, their idea that Americans were just a bunch of soft “storekeepers” (their commonly used term) who would fold like a cheap suit after a few casualties was, let’s be honest, simply bone stupid.
They lost the war when the first bomb landed on Pearl Harbor. There is just NO counter-factual scenario that has the Japanese winning.
“For two years Allies were losing, and losing badly”. Incorrect, my friend. Both sides were taking losses, the notable difference being US wartime production of both material (ships, planes, etc) AND highly-trained men and women to fight, maintain and supply DWARFED Japan’s ability to replace losses. In ‘44 and ‘45 we launched dozens of fleet carriers and scores of escort carriers, complete with trained air wings. Japan was NEVER close to coming out of this ahead.
The problem is, so what if the US was down to only one carrier if two dozen more were being built? This isn't like a land war where the moment you're down to one division the enemy can just walk right in to your capital. The Japanese were foolish to think that having won that degree of advantage, they could just sit back and wait for negotiations. Yet they had no place further to go for a decisive victory. They clearly could not mount an amphibious invasion of Hawaii or Australia with their current logistics. All of that should have been foreseen.
Read Below, LivingaDream, Right ON Brother. And This: Say It. Here are two more. Rommel and Lee. Rommel was a terrible general. He was able to take some advantage, but he got a failing grade in logistics and grand strategy. He was fighting for a regime of horrible ideals. Most like to say, he wasn't a Nazi, but he was the head of Hitler's personal bodyguard. Now, rethink that proposition. Lee lost the big showdown. Proportionally, he always had high casualties he could not afford. The Union, like the US in WWII, was growing a big machine and had problems learning how to use it. Lee took advantage of a series of idiot opponents. Let's not forget, he was fighting for the right to keep people enslaved. How can you idealize that? Right on Yamamoto. He won essentially one battle, the other "victories" were rolling in on small garrisons isolated without hope of support. How "brilliant" was it to bomb Pearl Harbor, a garrison, not a war without warning. His plans were always ridiculous with three or four axis of advance.