Sarah Paine

Great, just in time to figure out how the capitulation's gonna work.

And then the Army wanted to unify the two high commands.

The Navy wanted nothing to do with that one because they knew they'd just become the box lunch delivery service for the Army, didn't want to do that.

So by 1945, they did unify their information department.

Great.

They could spew the same propaganda and maybe share Tokyo Rose on a good day.

Who knows?

But there was no planning even under the imminent threat of invasion to how they're going to coordinate their assets to protect the home island.

They aren't even coordinating their air assets.

Disaster.

And this disaster goes back way in time.

They had very far back in time.

They had a very successful war against Russia that ends in 1905.

But afterwards, in 1906, immediately afterwards, the army and navy are allowed to have completely separate war plans.

The army plan is all about fighting Russia for the big land grab in Eurasia.

The Navy plan has a completely different set of enemies.

It'd be the United States and Britain for the big gambit.

You're not going to use ships in Siberia.

The big gambit for empire in the Pacific.

And each of these plans, A, they're secret from the other service, and B, each plan assumes the other service is going to do all kinds of important things for them.