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The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War - Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and Command, 1941-1943 (Hardcover)
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The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War - Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and Command, 1941-1943 (Hardcover)
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Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves
fighting on two fronts-in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These
concurrent campaigns, conducted between July 1942 and February
1943, proved a critical turning point in the war being waged in the
Pacific, as the advantage definitively shifted from the Japanese to
the Americans. Key to this shift was the Allies seizing of the
strategic initiative-a concept that Sean Judge examines in this
book, particularly in the context of the Pacific War. The concept
of strategic initiative, in this analysis, helps to explain why and
how contending powers design campaigns and use military forces to
alter the trajectory of war. Judge identifies five factors that
come into play in capturing and maintaining the initiative:
resources, intelligence, strategic acumen, combat effectiveness,
and chance, all of which are affected by political will. His book
uses the dual campaigns in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands as a
case study in strategic initiative by reconstructing the
organizations, decisions, and events that influenced the shift of
initiative from one adversary to the other. Perhaps the most
critical factor in this case is strategic acumen, without which the
other advantages are easily squandered. Specifically, Judge details
how General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, in
designing and executing these campaigns, provided the strategic
leadership essential to reversing the tide of war-whose outcome,
Judge contends, was not as inevitable as conventional wisdom tells
us. The strategic initiative, once passed to American and Allied
forces in the Pacific, would never be relinquished. In its
explanation of how and why this happened, The Turn of the Tide in
the Pacific War holds important lessons for students of military
history and for future strategic leaders.
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