Translation: Beijing can hit Los Angeles and Honolulu fast and from all directions. In November communist China fired what the Pentagon calls a “fractional orbital bombardment system” (FOBS) carrying a hypersonic glide vehicle. In 2021 America and its allies - including a democratic Japan - face emerging threats that are, frankly, deadly threats thrust in our collective face. So was the Nanking Massacre, commonly called the Rape of Nanking, an imperial Japanese mass atrocity committed against the Chinese in 1937.ĭead history? No, instructive history. The Mukden attack was what current observers call “an emerging threat.” Emerging? It was a threat that Washington could ignore. There’s a very good case Mukden is the surprise attack that started WWII. 19, 1931, when Japanese soldiers attacked the Chinese Mukden garrison and invaded Manchuria.

Let’s go to Mukden (Shenyang), China, Sept.

In a short article published that November, they wrote, “The explanation (for WWII) was to be found in the breakdown in the system of collective security and the growth of international anarchy, moral and political, in the post-war years.” Post-war meant post-WWI, the war to end all wars.Ĭollective insecurity sounds so academic, and so I’ll translate: The more sober and more good failed to stand up to the fanatics.ĭid Pearl Harbor start WWII? No. In the late summer of 1945, historians Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager reflected on WWII’s origins. However, Pearl Harbor was more of a culmination than a surprise. “Offensive capacity” in WWII Pentagonese means being able to put Zeros over L.A. Four Japanese carriers went to the bottom, and with their demise went Japan’s offensive capacity. The Battle of Midway occurred six months after the Pearl Harbor debacle. After a Pearl Harbor-type attack Yamamoto said, “I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success.” That quote may have been apocryphal, but the next one isn’t. The brainy Yamamoto, who designed the tactical success at Pearl Harbor? The gifted strategist in him may not have said “don’t awaken the sleeping giant” - giant meaning the U.S. The total whack-job, imperial-emperor virtue-signaling Tokyo elites thought the attack would utterly frighten feckless, libertine, paper-tiger American cowards into retreating from Asia and submitting to Japanese racialist-globalist superiority.īack to Pearl. The semi-sane bean counters thought it would destroy America’s Pacific Ocean fleet and make retribution (counterattack on Japan) impossible, or at least improbable. Isoruku Yamamoto - thought the sneak attack would do two things.

perspective, the Japanese 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor definitely fits that definition. Webster’s Dictionary defines infamy as: “evil reputation brought about by something grossly criminal, shocking, or brutal.”įrom the U.S.

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