05-06-2020, 02:16 PM
(05-06-2020, 01:25 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: If the Japanese took the unraveling character of America as soft and selfish to always be America's character, is that irrational?
Doesn't matter, because that's not how the Japanese took the character of America. Yamamoto realized that his attack was a bad idea, but he did it anyway. It was as irrational as nuking Beijing or Moscow on the expectation that China or Russia wouldn't respond - yet Yamamoto carried out the attack.
Quote:Were each alliance made by the European powers before the Great War sensible, or looking at the net result are you justified in saying all of them together put the continent on a hair trigger? The leaders of the time should have known better?
WWI was started by a Serbian agitator with the support of the Serbian government. It was entirely rational, and even accomplished the intended objective: Peter I of Serbia doubled the size of his kingdom as a result.
But hey, I guess the history of warfare is another area like Generational Dynamics where you think your ignorance gives you more knowledge instead of less.
