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Preemptive Strike - The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
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Preemptive Strike - The Secret Plan That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Hardcover)
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The untold story of a secret planthat would have prevented Pearl
Harbor--and maybe even World War II.
Could a plan to bomb Japan and destroy Japanese supply lines,
communications, and staging areas in China have averted the
horrendous and devastating attack on Pearl Harbor? On July 23,
1941--some five months before Pearl Harbor--President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt endorsed a plan calling for the United States to
provide China with 150 manned bombers and 350 fighter planes to
wreak havoc on Japan's growing presence in China. "Joint Board Plan
335" had been proposed to Roosevelt and his cabinet by
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Dr. T. V. Soong, China's special
envoy to the United States; and Captain Claire Lee Chennault, a
retired Air Corps pilot now in the employ of Chiang. Such a
preemptive strike on Japanese interests had been under discussion
for several months. Although initially blocked by General George C.
Marshall, the plan was resurrected in the spring of 1941. So why,
then, was it never employed?
First, there were the practical reasons: Not yet fully recovered
from the Great Depression, millions of Americans were more
concerned about domestic issues than foreign policy. Roosevelt and
his cabinet feared political fallout from Chiang's proposed
international intrigue, to say nothing of facing Winston
Churchill's wrath by diverting airplanes from Britain. Then there
were also ethical concerns over the definite civilian casualties
the air strike would inflict. Could Roosevelt justify bombing raids
when the U.S. and Japan were officially at peace? Chiang and
Chennault argued that their plan would serve as a moral quid pro
quo to an adversary that had been bombing and slaughtering millions
of Chinese civilians for three years. The raids, Chennault
insisted, would forestall Japanese expansion into Malaya,
Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.
Painstakingly researched and colorfully written, Preemptive Strike
offers a seldom-seen glimpse of the political and moral pressures
brought to bear on Roosevelt's prewar cabinet. It is sure to prompt
debate, as much as the decision to use this wartime strategy does
today.
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