عنوان

The Pacific War and contingent victory :

شابک

0700620877

شابک

9780700620876

شابک اشتباه

9780700620883

شماره

b413552

عنوان اصلي

The Pacific War and contingent victory :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

why Japanese defeat was not inevitable /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Michael W. Myers

نام خاص و کميت اثر

x, 198 pages :

ساير جزييات

maps ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

Modern war studies

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index

متن يادداشت

About the Allies' victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japan's defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power. But the outcome, Michael W. Myers contends, was actually anything but inevitable. This book is Myers's thorough and deeply informed explanation of how contingent the "foregone conclusion" of the war in the Pacific really was. However disproportionate their respective resources, both Japan and the Allied forces confronted significant obstacles to ultimate victory. One the two sides shared, Myers shows, was the lack of a single individual with the knowledge, vision, and authority to formulate and implement effective strategy. Both exercised leadership by committee, and Myers cogently explains how this contributed to the contingent nature of the conflict. A remarkable exercise in logical methods of strategic thinking, his book analyzes decisive campaigns in the Pacific War, examining the economic and strategic challenges that both sides faced and had to overcome to achieve victory. Japan, for instance, had two goals going into the war: to expand the boundaries of what they termed the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and to end their long and frustrating war in China. These goals, as Myers shows us, had unforeseen and devastating logistical and strategic consequences. But the United States faced similar problems - as well as other hurdles specific to a nation not yet on full war footing. Overturning conventional historiography, The Pacific War and Contingent Victory clarifies the proper relationship between freedom and determinism in historical thinking. A compelling retelling of the Pacific War that might easily have been, the book offers historical lessons in thinking about contemporary American foreign policy and American exceptionalism - most saliently about the dangers of the presumption of American ascendancy. -- from back cover

موضوع مستند نشده

Counterfactuals (Logic)

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Campaigns-- Pacific Area

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Myers, Michael W., (Michael Warren),1951-

تاريخ عمليات

20160607014320.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y