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Great post! Thanks.
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Great post! Thanks.re the question of taking jet engines seriously, the following is an interesting read.
"The Great Jet Engine Race . . . And How We Lost - Air Force Magazine"
That's not cricketIs any UK sport different? Like The Hundred or the big bash?
Japan got rid of the samurai class for two reasons: because they were expensive and worthless in modern warfare.That is a good question. What if the samurai had still been in charge of the Japanese military, responsible for its equipment development and training, and the decision makers as far as how to prosecute the war?
I suspect if the war had happened anywhere near the same timeline, it would have been prepared for and fought significantly differently.
Japan would ultimately fail due to economic collapse.
And the fact the Samurai were no longer a viable military force.
That is a good question. What if the samurai had still been in charge of the Japanese military, responsible for its equipment development and training, and the decision makers as far as how to prosecute the war?
In many respects the Samurai were still in charge, especially in IJN. Though the omnipresent sword-toting warriors of pre-Meiji Japan were no longer a distinct privileged class, there still existed an old-boy network such that the majority of admissions to the military academies were of Samurai stock, and an even higher percentage survived to graduation.Samurai is two things Hollywood and reality.
The reality is far more mundane.
And they were mostly reactionary in their values and opposed the changes needed to make Japan competitive in the modern world. Abolishing the privileges, however, doesn't abolish the identity or the traditions, and men of Samurai heritage quickly came to dominate the modern armed services.Japan got rid of the samurai class for two reasons: because they were expensive and worthless in modern warfare.
Only when Japan was attacked by foreign invaders, there being no "national army" as such. The rest of the time Samurai fought for their Daimyo ("liege lord" or "regional warlord", in western terms) in the incessant struggle and intrigue for power, prestige, and expanded domain. It was the fuction of the Shogun to keep these squabbles from getting out of hand and imperiling the status quo (essentially the Shogun's own status), usually by manipulating coalitions of loyal Daimyos against the insurgent ones.The defenders of Japan.
I was reading....er...no...listening to a book saying by 1944 the only military strategy Japan had was a willingness to die in large numbers.
Is this a good strategy?
I have family ties to Japan going back to 1890, but mostly pre-WWII. One of my paternal-side great grandmothers was the first foreigner and first woman to become a professor in a Japanese university. My mother was born in Shizuoka of missionary parents and never discovered until I joined the Navy and needed a security clearance that her and her sisters' papers were not properly processed when they entered the US, and they were not US citizens. All three of them had been voting and holding office illegally for almost forty years, and my aunt Dorothy had a career with the State Department's USIA. VT Senator George Aiken got that fixed right away, over INS's objections.I am expert on Japanese history. I watched at least two YouTube videos so I have a knowledge beyond my years.
Sadly the short format doesn't allow the details which is necessary to discuss such a far reaching topic.
The end of the shogunate and the Meiji restoration had something to do with Tom Cruise.
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Ha ha! As you so very well know, New Zealand, being a rugby mad nation resisted the call to go pro for many years and many of the All Black players in the amateur years were farmers. It was not uncommon to go to watch the Saturday morning rugby match between local teams being played on a farmer's field, complete with grazing sheep and rural delights scattered about the field...I read somewhere that it all came down to the invention of the lawn mower.
This was last week.Ha ha! As you so very well know, New Zealand, being a rugby mad nation resisted the call to go pro for many years and many of the All Black players in the amateur years were farmers. It was not uncommon to go to watch the Saturday morning rugby match between local teams being played on a farmer's field, complete with grazing sheep and rural delights scattered about the field...
Kamikaze was a winning formula as more ships were damaged by Kamikaze than conventional means.
So it's working fine.
Hear, hear!
Kamikaze was a winning formula as more ships were damaged by Kamikaze than conventional means.