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To say that Douglas MacArthur was more of a military genius then Ulysses as Grant (as the description states) is sheer fantasy. General Grant's arduous campaign to take Vicksburg is still taught at the US Army war College as one of the finest examples of innovative, creative, redoubtable, relentless and effective military campaigns in history, up there with Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan's great generals, and Sargon of Akkad. MacArthur was the beneficiary of a mighty US Navy and an ever-increasing torrent of US Air power, neither of which were his creations or particular specialties. At no point did MacArthur or his troops ever face even a large portion of the Japanese Army, most of which were tied down in China, Burma, French Indochina and other captured Japanese lands, meaning MacArthur could concentrate on one Island at a time under the air umbrella of his brilliant air commander General George C Kenney. While General Grant did have the union Navy under Admiral Porter to run supplies, and to shell enemy fortifications, this was hardly the same as MacArthur being able to focus on a single Island - for example New Guinea - while the Navy and Air Forces controlled not only Japanese supply lines to those embattled islands, but controlled the great strategic theater that was the Pacific Ocean. For example, while MacArthur was fighting in New Guinea, the Marines under Navy command were of course fighting a similar Island war of attrition over at Guadalcanal, thus greatly reducing the Japanese effort in New Guinea. MacArthur's goal of retaking the Philippines instead of the Navy's goal to invade Formosa was probably a better strategic choice, which is why President Roosevelt and MacArthur's High command superiors went with the Philippine invasion instead, to prevent all the Japanese airbases there being used to attack American supply lines for the upcoming invasion of Japan. And MacArthur did an excellent job overseeing the Japanese surrender and US occupation of Japan, but it is hard to make the case that MacArthur was a military genius, and his victories certainly depended on the US Navy winning the crucial carrier battles which determined the course of the war, and MacArthur hardly deserves any credit for those battles.
After spending 20yrs in the military, l have people like him both as Officers and men. It was only time he would kill his men and himself because of his arrogance.
The real truth is the turning point of WW2 was December 7th 1941 at Pearl Harbor. This got the US involved with our massive manufacturing ability and unlimited resources. This was the end of Germany and Japan as we buried them with our weapons. It was a matter of time before both of them were destroyed! End of story.
The US already got involved months before by supplying countries such as Britain and China. Roosevelt also offered Stalin help before Pearl Harbor. So no, the turning Point wasn't Pearl Harbor. The US was basically already at war with Germany and Japan before they got attacked.
Where the Nazis went after WWII?? They went to America, see Operation Paper Clip where over 1,600 German scientists, engineers, military and technicians most Nazi sympathizers were taken to the United States
William Tecumseh Sherman predicted a long protracted war and was called INSANE. By 1943 the Axis were the ones who knew they were gonna lose. The Allies were well aware just how bloody their win would be.
Great talk. Re mechanisation, if the German army relied mostly on horse-drawn transport throughout the war, why does it matter that it had cut back on motorised transport for Operation Blau? Re scraping the manpower barrel, didn't all combatants send all their 18 year olds into battle? Was the Wehrmacht particularly reliant on them in 1942?
If there are some of you whom wonder about that last QnA, how the USArmy vs USMC did things the right or wrong way, then i encurage you to take a look at war history material surrounding the Australian contribution to the Vietnam war. They was under US HQ for the first 12 months, that was all they could endure before they set up their own High command. They did things a little different. But in the grand scémes, it would not have altered any outcome of the war, possible just prolonged it.
Once Case Blue failed, once again mostly due to Hitler's interference, Germany;s defeat was inevitable. While they surrendered at Stalingrad in Feb 43, once they were cut off in November it was all over. The one chance Germany had to win after 1941 was to either take or destroy the russian oil production complexes around Baku. After that no chance of victory at all for Germany
The fact that so many people today don't believe this ever happened after all this footage and these photos is insane. Like, how much more proof do people need to believe this happened?
The voracity with which Glantz discusses this topic captures me everytime. I come back and watch this lecture probably about once a year. The sheer scale of the Ostfront that Glantz excellently portrays for us never ceases to amaze me.
TIK : uses sources from historians to make videos collecting together and showing all the info together everyone here commenting about TIK : TIK sux this guy better! > TIKs primary source IS this guy Seriously you haters are just retards.
He does not mention Navies at Sicily and Salerno where the Cruisers and Destroyers sailed close to beaches and turned their guns on the Panzers , also it was not only US at Sicily and Salerno, also the Brits
erm Milne Bay ? ....somebody should tap this gentleman on the shoulder and tell him that the first victory on land against Japan was 95% Australian...... and that the American effort at Buna and Gona was a failure with Australians again doing the heavy lifting. MacArthur never "Took" Buna or Gona ...Australian troops did. Also 70'000 Australians were given a sideline of operations in Borneo , (thereby saving American lives because of the experience in jungle fighting ) MacArthur wanted it to be ALL American ,,,this guy has one degree vision
His father lost his eye sight during the civil war. Robert Conner, he was called “Blind Bob Conner”. He fought at Shiloh and lost his best friend in this battle. Bob ended up marrying his friends sister. Bob lost his eye sight later in a battle out from Atlanta. After the civil war Bob and Nancy married and had five children. Fox the oldest. The Conners taught at Slate Springs School in Calhoun County, MS. In the evenings they would gather with neighbors around the fireplace and discuss the ex soldiers experiences during the war. My great great grandfather was on the losing side at Gettysburg. Part of Picketts charge. Young Fox at age eight and older heard about the movement of vast numbers of troops, horses, artillery pieces, drums and bugle, commands up and down the line. The excitement of preparing for a big battle. Fox decided then that he wanted to be an officer in the US military. And so it happened
He taking the Piss, up unto minute 7 He claims to have covered all early WWII events but He did not mention The Battle Britain. The He asks "where was the turning point" what an idiot presenter
it is common, that at the start of any war, they fight like it was the last war. Both America and Britain did so badly in the first two years, of WW II. It takes time to adjust to the new technology, of war.
I've never seen anything like it. My wife's grandfather was in the USA balloon Corp (4th, I recall) he came home from the war pretty PTSD, from all accounts.
lol, Stalin never gave order to retreat, dfq? Stalin was the one who directed Not a single step back directive. At the start of Barbarossa, Stalin basically did nothing , and later he came back to fight
He was both brilliant and delusional he fouled up the Phillipines in 41 by relying on a ill trained and equipped Phillipines army and delaying and not preparing for war plan orange. His new guinea campaign was greatly successful. Casualties were about 10 to 1 in allies favor. Inchon was brilliant followed up by ignoring intelligence on Chinese intervention.
Custer was nothing more than a blowhard, self-important, quite confident that once he won Little Bighorn, he would be an automatic shoe-in for POTUS. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull spanked the fuck out of Custer’s arrogant ass.
Germany´s problem was that it had a 4 front war to fight, which was enforced on it by the declarations of war on the 3rd of Sept. 39 by GB and France. There was no alternative for Germany than to fight to the bitter end as the Allies had agreed to an unconditional surrender! That is the reason why German soldiers fought to the very end. The German resistance wanted to eliminate Hitler and find a sensible peace solution, however the Allies never had any real interest in such a solution. GB was the real loser of WWII and as such lost it´s empire with the USA taking over.
Germany did not have to invade Poland or France or Russia so it was totally German's fault for WW2. The Allies were also totally different countries in 1938 than 1945. The Allies in 1938 were France and UK while Germany had agreements with Russia and while the USA was isolationist. Germany could have easily avoided war as they were the side on offense until 1943, every action by Germany was offensive. Doing nothing is always a valid option too, German did not have to invade anyone from Czechia to Poland to Russia to France.
He had a better answer to give to defend his position against the question about white washing and cover ups of massacres. The massacres were covered up in reports precisely because the official government position didnt condone physical genocide. If the official orders to the military were to "kill them all" then why did junior officers see a need to lie in their reports? A good comparison would be to a situation where it WAS official policy to have a genocide. Namely the nazis in ww2. The field extermination groups filed accurate reports to the nazi high command on the number of villages, jews, and so on they'd liquidate. They didnt need to cover anything up because it was the official orders. So in this case if during every massacre youve got officers and commanders lying to cover it up it means they fear punishment from higher ups for committing forbidden acts. In this case the act forbidden is the massacre. This doesnt excuse any of the actions but it does prove his point that physical genocide wasnt an official position or goal.
