Comments on: Surprise Torpedo Attack

By: cassander

cassander — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:03:04 +0000

The US navy spent almost 50 years expecting, and planning for, a surprise attack against the Philippines, because for most of that period, an attack against hawaii was simply not possible. It became possible in the late 30s, but 5 years was a small time period to absorb a change of that magnitude sort of change. that part of the fleet was in atlantic waters, though, made absolutely no difference.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:39:46 +0000

I’ll get to the open secret of Nationalist China momentarily, and now that I have that draft copy of the whole text I can get to Korea, etc. Thank you!

By: Grurray

Grurray — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:09:30 +0000

They learned too much from the Russian war and developed their doctrine of Kantai Kessen, which was Japanese for ‘putting all your eggs in one basket’

American Carriers, leap frogging, diversionary tactics, and good old Yankee ingenuity proved that flexibility and maneuverability could defeat Japanese concentrated power.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:57:26 +0000

A draft copy pdf version of "Open Secrets of American Policy" can be downloaded from Tullocks official website. I like chapter 3 on the collapse of nationalist China, which was summarized on Overcoming Bias as: "Tullock goes on to describe how US diplomats in China personally favored the communists. Even if the truth is somewhere between these pictures, it seems quite at odds with the usual US-fighting-communism story."