Posted on 05/05/2011 2:11:32 PM PDT by FoxPro
Yamamoto was a valid military target.
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Ah those were the days, when armies wore uniforms.....
To this day, the P-38 is one sharp looking machine.
Ahmedinejad..........
When are we going to hear froim the Magicians Union that the code name is offensive?
Yamamoto was a valid military target.
I seem to recall from my history lessons in high school that there was a quaint old document created called a "Declaration of War", passed by the Congress on December 8, 1941. After that declaration, any member of Japan's military was a legitimate target for attack.
He was. "Assassination" is arguably more of a term of art than anything else. Even the Church Commission, concluded that the intentional targeting of a plainly military leader during armed conflict was legal even in the face of prohibition of assassination. And, EO 12333 doesn't preclude targeted killing in an armed conflict though it does prohibit political assassination.
I’ve always thought the shootdown of Yammamoto an Act of God. Kind of like the Battle of Midway, it could easily have gone the other way. Even though the Allies had the info, still, finding his plane in the the middle of the big sky like that, was like finding a needle in a haystack.
I have always thought this incident would have made for a great movie.
No mention of Tom Lanphier?
It wasn’t worth risking Magic over.
Yamamoto the “brilliant” stratagist split the Kido Butai of six carriers in May 42 to conduct Coral Sea with only 2 carriers. Shokaku’s flight deck was wrecked by bombs and Zuikaku’s air groups were mauled meaning neither carrier was available for Midway. And they didn’t get Port Moresby either.
Around the time Yamamoto was assassinated, he had come up with the “brilliant” strategy of committing the retraining carrier air groups of Zuikaku and Shokaku for a landbased air offensive and Japanese naval pilot quality never recovered.
Actually I was thinking the Magic Dragon Society might complain.
I like twin boomed aircraft in general, and built 1/72 scale models of them as a boy.
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the essence of this was not declassified until 1976.
Bamster think politics first everything else last. He probably wanted to save killing OBL for the election run, late 2012. Darn that.
I think the word assassination is valid for the planned killing of any person of power and notoriety. This isn’t a legal document. I am not a lawyer.
I think the word is generally, and aptly, descriptive in this case.
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