Internet rips draft doger Gingrich for praising Japanese brilliance in Pearl Harbor attack
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich used the opportunity to honor Pearl Harbor Day by giving a shout-out to — the Japanese.
On the 75th anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that destroyed most the United State’s Pacific fleet and claimed the lives of 2,403 Americans, leaving 1,178 wounded, Gingrich tweeted out praise for the Japanese Empire’s achievement.
“75 years ago the Japanese displayed professional brilliance and technological power launching surprises from Hawaii to the Philippines, ” the Trump adviser wrote.
You can guess how that went over on Twitter.
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75 years ago the Japanese displayed professional brilliance and technological power launching surprises from Hawaii to the Philippines
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based on "if the South won the civil war."
Be not surprised at anything from The Gingrich who Stole Congress.
Visions of Infamy is a full biography of Hector Charles Bywater, the leading naval journalist of the first part of the 20th century who Honan argues was the architect of Japan's naval war against the United States in the Second World War.[8] Bywater's 1925 book, The Great Pacific War, was a fictional account of how Japan might engage the United States in a theoretical future naval conflict and how the U.S. might respond. As Honan points out in Visions of Infamy, both Japan and the U.S. adopted strategies that were remarkably faithful to what Bywater promulgated in his fictionalized war game. Honan goes on to argue that this was much more than just a coincidence.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto familiarized himself with Bywater's works while serving two postings as Japanese naval attaché in Washington, D.C. As Honan demonstrates, Yamamoto adopted Bywater's broad strategy, which is most noticeable in Yamamoto's surprise attack against the U.S. fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Separately, U.S. naval strategists came to adopt Bywater's controversial idea of island hopping to reverse Japanese advances in the Pacific. As Bywater predicted, the U.S. strategy would ultimately bring overwhelming naval and aerial superiority to bear against the Japanese forces. This strategy, known as War Plan Orange, became the official joint policy of the United States Army and Navy in the years leading up to and during the Second World War. As Bywater predicted, this plan worked. One particularly notable example of the successful adoption of Bywater's strategy is the U.S. invasion of the Philippines in which U.S. commanders chose the very beaches to land forces on the archipelago that Bywater recommended. As Honan remarks, Bywater taught "two of the most powerful nations on Earth how to make war with each other."
Bywater was considered a relatively minor figure by military historians until Honan's book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Honan#Visions_of_Infamy
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