What the Pacific Theater of World War II Can Teach the U.S. Military Today

December 15, 2020 Topic: History Blog Brand: The Reboot Tags: U.S. NavyNavyMilitaryTechnology

What the Pacific Theater of World War II Can Teach the U.S. Military Today

James Holmes reviews The Pacific War Remembered, an oral history of World War II in the Pacific.

 

Let’s clear away bureaucratic underbrush—and recapture the spirit of the Pacific War.

James Holmes is J. C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific, which appears on the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Professional Reading Lists. The views voiced here are his alone.

 

This article first appeared in November 2020.

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