MacArthur's overall strategy was feasible assuming the Philippines could be resupplied. Even if every American fighter in the Philippines had been protected from the initial attacks, the success of the attack at Pearl doomed the Philippines.
In December 1941, MacArthur had one re-enforced US Infantry Division and ten divisions of almost untrained Philippine Army troops. His fight them on the beaches strategy was doomed. His troops were not trained enough to get into a mobile fight with the Imperial Japanese Army.
He then followed this up with criminal mismanagement of his logistics by not moving supplies to the Bataan peninsula before the war started. In fact he didn’t start moving supplies to Bataan and Corrigedor until well after the start of the war. Thousands of tons of supplies were destroyed instead of being sent to where they were needed. One tank company in central Luzon could only attack with one platoon instead of the whole company due to a shortage of fuel.
As I’ve said on the World War II plus 70 years threads, he should have been court-martialed for his defense of the Philippines.
Key sentence. The Orange Plan called for a retreat to the Bataan peninsula and wait for the fleet. The tragedy was neither the govt or MacArthur did anything to beef up Bataan - not even cross-peninsula roads or defensive lines. That, combined with MacArthur's suicidal plan to stop the Japs at Lingayen doomed the troops. Even then, they held out almost until the Coral Sea battle. Another "If only" scenario had MacArthur immediately retreated to Bataan and dug in.
IMO, the definitive story of Bataan is "Bataan - Our Last Ditch" by John W. Whitman. I had no idea how tough a fight the troops put up, completely screwing up the Jap's plans. Sober and heart-breaking reading of the sacrifice of those abandoned troops.