When General Douglas MacArthur led Allied troops into the jungles
of New Guinea in World War II, he was already looking ahead. By
successfully leapfrogging Japanese forces on that island, he placed
his armies in a position to fulfill his personal promise to
liberate the Philippines.
The New Guinea campaign has gone down in history as one of
MacArthur's shining successes. Now Stephen Taaffe has written the
definitive history of that assault, showing why it succeeded and
what it contributed to the overall strategy against Japan. His book
tells not only how victory was gained through a combination of
technology, tactics, and Army-Navy cooperation, but also how the
New Guinea campaign exemplified the strategic differences that
plagued the Pacific War, since many high-ranking officers
considered it a diversionary tactic rather than a key
offensive.
"MacArthur's Jungle War" examines the campaign's strategic
background and individual operations, describing the enormous
challenges posed by jungle and amphibious warfare. Perhaps more
important, it offers a balanced assessment of MacArthur's
leadership and limitations, revealing his reliance on familiar
battle plans and showing the vital role that subordinates played in
his victory. Taaffe tells how MacArthur played the difficulties of
the New Guinea campaign by maintaining his undivided attention on
reaching the Philippines. He also discloses how MacArthur
frequently deceived both his superiors and the public in order to
promote his own agenda, and examines errors the general would later
repeat on a larger scale up through the Korean War.
"MacArthur's Jungle War" offers historians a more analytical
treatment of the New Guinea campaign than is found in previous
works, and is written with a dramatic flair that will appeal to
military buffs. By revealing the interaction among American
military planning, interservice politics, MacArthur's generalship,
and the American way of war, Taaffe's account provides a clearer
understanding of America's Pacific war strategy and shows that the
New Guinea offensive was not a mere backwater affair, but a
critical part of the war against Japan.
General
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