Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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The Americans would teach the Japanese this lesson even more
Brutally.
The attack on American sailors in Hawaii instantly galvanized the American population to prosecute an unlimited war, with Tokyo itself as the ultimate destination of American counterattack.
While Americans would remember the date that we'd live in infame, primarily because of the assault on Pearl Harbor itself, the strategic consequence was that Japanese actions in Hawaii had introduced numerous new adversaries into the Pacific conflict.
Not only the United States, but Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
These additions transformed what had been, from the Japanese perspective, a regional conflict.
with manageable parameters into a global war that Japan could not possibly win through any conceivable means.
What made this particularly disastrous for Japan was the context in which the new theater had been opened.
Japan was already deeply marred in a quagmire in China.
As one observer would later characterize it, it was a malignant quackmire.
That consumed vast resources, inflicted enormous casualties, and failed to produce decisive victory.
In military strategy, it is sometimes wise to open a new theater in order to attack an enemy from an additional or an unexpected direction, thereby dispersing their forces and creating a new challenge for them to manage.
But opening a new theater that introduces an entirely new, powerful adversary, and doing so when one is already overextended in an existing theater is a prescription for strategic catastrophe.
This was precisely what Japan had done with Pearl Harbor.
Now Chen Kai shek understood the magnitude of Japan's miscalculation.
He understood that whatever the military complexities that lay ahead, whatever the challenges coordinating with Western allies, and whatever the limitations of Western military assistance might be like for China.
The fundamental equation had changed.
The United States would ultimately defeat Japan.
The Chinese did not need to defeat Japan by themselves, but merely to survive long enough for American industrial military might to grind the Japanese military into dust.
In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Chinese and American officials moved swiftly to formalize the alliance and establish the mechanisms of wartime cooperation.
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