Jonathan Bratten
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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There are many leaders who just can't grapple with that, can't bring their minds around it.
Halsey's excellent at that coordination of air and sea.
A little bit almost, one could say, too good.
He has this faith in his own capabilities and leadership that puts himself often in difficult tactical situations and weather considerations as well, as he often puts his task forces into various typhoons throughout the war.
Yeah.
But he is one of these individuals who being aggressive allows him to always keep the Japanese Imperial Navy on the back foot.
This is huge because as we know, most of the Imperial Japanese Army was busy on the Asian continent, busy mostly with China.
And it's the Navy that's holding those Pacific island chains and fighting what
rapidly becomes a deteriorating, delaying action as they're losing island chains and also losing the ability to combat what is becoming increasingly aggressive, increasingly capable U.S.
naval presence that's both under the water, on the surface of the water, and in the air.
I think we often forget about how critical the submarine warfare element in the Pacific was for destroying Japanese merchant marines.
Just almost too large of a scale, I think, for a lot of us to really take in.
Leyte Gulf is a great example of what happens if you're a little bit too aggressive.
You're following a decoy or a feint of the Japanese carrier force as you're trying to find your enemy's weakest point or your most decisive point for yourself to destroy your enemy's most important asset, it would be the carriers.
And you put you up on almost disadvantage.
And luckily he wins at Leyte, but it is at the cost of very high casualties.
yeah so he's kind of a little bit rash overly aggressive I mean it sounds crazy but possibly overly aggressive yes but you also need that yeah you need that right you absolutely need that especially from a naval commander and especially in that theater where if you let your guard down at one moment I mean the Japanese Imperial Navy is absolutely a potent force and if you don't have the destruction of that
especially that carrier capability, nothing's moving.
There's no army action coming to reinforce you.
You're not able to seize any island chains to turn into airfield for strategic bombing.
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