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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
He became the youngest person ever to become a lieutenant general, reformed West points education and is one of the main reasons South Korea exists today.

Now onto correcting some of your statements. First off the Philippines. To put it simply there was no way for MacArthur or anyone else for that matter to actually defend the Philippines. It was in the direct sights of the entire Japanese empire in addition to the fact that with the strike at Pearl Harbor it was impossible for the US to actually support the defense of the Philippines. If you want a more detailed analysis of what happened I’d recommend the video done by the channel Kings and Generals but the synopsis is while MacArthur certainly made some mistakes especially early on in the defense MacArthur conducted himself well in his retreat to Battan and that ultimately due to the status of the Philippines armed forces and Japans strategy required the occupation of the Philippines meant that no one would be able to actually defend the Philippines even if everything was done right.

As for the rest of the pacific campaign the idea that it was entirely fought by the US Navy and USMC is just plain false. In terms of both manpower and number of divisions alone the US army has more than double the amount of men and divisions fighting in the Pacific fighting in campaigns in places like New Guinea. This is because the US opted to fight the Pacific war in two ways. The first plan drawn up by MacArthur and favored by the army had the US carve its way through New Guinea back to the Philippines to bleed the Japanese empire and cut it in half. Which MacArthur did to great effect. In fact the campaign was so bloody for the Japanese they came up with the saying ‘Java is heaven Burma is hell but no one comes back alive in New Guinea.’ The second plan which everyone knows about was the Navy’s plan which called for cutting a path straight to Japan by capturing small islands to bomb Japan directly and make naval operations easier.

This isn’t even mentioning other parts about MacArthurs career like how he was a major pioneer in how island hopping campaigns actually worked with the entire idea of simply bypassing smaller more well defended islands if another island was available being his idea m.
gpt
Based and historically literate pilled.