[Pelham]

“In 1945 Japan was kaput, it was over. No navy = no support for ground troops. The whole “empire” was all separated by ocean. No navy = impotent.”

Really? And why exactly didn’t the American military understand this? Maybe they didn’t have your expertise?

[PieterCasparzen]

“In 1945 Japan was kaput, it was over. No navy = no support for ground troops. The whole “empire” was all separated by ocean. No navy = impotent.”

Really? And why exactly didn’t the American military understand this? Maybe they didn’t have your expertise?

No, they had orders from the top that were very much affected by top Presidential advisors. Those advisors had longtime careers working for international banking elites which were financing the war, sitting on the boards of the defense contractors, and they would be the ones planning and financing the rebuilding of Japan.

Only the top military had any idea of who was calling the shots; the rest had no idea of the real motivations.