Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan — When Strategy Stops Correcting Itself
What happens when an institution becomes better at defending a failing strategy than correcting it?
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Using Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki as our lens, this Deep Dive examines the collapse of Japanese military strategy through the gap between decisions made at the top and conditions experienced by soldiers on the ground.
Mizuki’s treatment of the Imphal Campaign makes that gap brutally visible. Japanese forces entered an offensive shaped by confidence in determination and decisive action, but…
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