Ep 222: Peter Mansoor on MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines

School of War · Aug 15, 2025 · 50m

Colonel Peter Mansoor, U.S. Army (retired), General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History at The Ohio State University and authors of Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines, joins the show to discuss the largest campaign of the Pacific War, the liberation of the Philippines.

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Times

• 01:08 Introduction

• 01:30 Why West Point?

• 06:11 Petraeus

• 09:55 A huge scale

• 11:25 War Plan Orange

• 16:25 Inevitable

• 20:07 The guerrilla war

• 26:53 Mindanao & Luzon

• 31:33 Leyte Gulf

• 37:52 A do or die campaign

• 40:04 Manila

• 44:34 Command responsibility

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