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Japan: Gibraltar or Bataan?

Costello, William | April 16, 1949 issue

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This article analyses the comment of Secretary of the U.S. Army Kenneth Royall that in a war emergency Japan might be an albatross around the neck of the American military establishment. Royall's contention rests on certain assumptions, not all of which have been explicitly acknowledged in either military or civilian circles. Any war in the last half of the twentieth century will differ radically from the modified nineteenth-century mayhem of 1914-18 and the more elaborate experiments of World War II. When he discounted Japan, he was merely voicing a brutal pragmatism which has been crystallizing since the end of the World War II.

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WORLD War, 1939-1945; UNITED States -- Armed Forces; ROYALL, Kenneth; UTILITARIANISM; JAPAN; UNITED States

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