Bill Federer’s article is all well and good but historians seem to forget that Admiral Husband Kimmel & Major General Walter Short got canned for Washington’s failure to warn them about the code breaks of the planned Japanese attack on Pearl; yet MacArthur was lauded for his “I shall return” after he was grossly derelict for letting his Air Force get caught flat footed on the ground by the Japanese attack on Luzon. The Japanese Army swiftly overrun Luzon despite being outnumbered 3:2 by force under MacArthur. Add that to his savage attack on the “Bonus Army” and his insistence to Nuke North Korea and it comes out as grossly incompetent. Best thing Harry Truman did was to fire this egotistical, overbearing arse. American Caesar? What a joke!
You like so many have gained your understanding of MacArthur from the Left plus perhaps a bit of piling on by Navy people. He was not caught flat footed on Dec 8, 1941, the fickle finger of fate struck and the Gods of war just happened to be on the Japanese side at that time.
Add that to his savage attack on the “Bonus Army”
There was no savage attack and the genuine veterans had already gone home. What he removed from D.C. were the Occupy types of that era who came spoiling for a fight. You should go back and read primary sources of the incident, not what the Left later says happened.