Their assumptions were faulty and they underestimated how fast the United States would respond. Pearl Harbor was supposed to be a preemptive strike that set back naval capabilities in the Pacific in a major way but it didn't do enough in the grand scheme of things.
The japs had the ship advantage for the start of the war another example of big navy’s getting btfoed by smaller ones is the Spanish getting clowned on by the British and later getting clowned on by Americans. Big navy only works if you keep up with modern warfare tactics.
To be fair, fighting with outdated strategy and tactics is often going to end in failure to some degree no matter what regardless if a battle is taking place on land, at sea or in the sky.
Battle of Midway was a very close thing, we largely won it because one of their scout flights failed to spot our carriers and communicate that fact, and we got the drop on them because they were operating under the wrong doctrine due to that reconnaissance oversight. Moreover, even getting the carrier group into place for that battle involved insanely rushed repairs at Pearl Harbor and carefully foiling Japanese attempts to gain info on our fleet movements. It was one of the battles that the War in the Pacific hinged on, and it could have gone the other way had the Japanese had just a few extra pieces of intel.
We “lost” to them because we refused to go complete total war on them which is good or bad depending on your perspective.
If you mean Vietnam and Afghanistan it wouldn't of mattered how well the military adapted because the strategy at the top was flawed. In the former's case, the United States always possessed the means to properly invade North Vietnam and knock it out as soon as possible but didn't want to risk another Chinese intervention which is what happened in the then recent Korean War. Meanwhile with Afghanistan the USA propped up an incompetent government that had an issue with corruption, bad morale issues and lacked legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
I have political dealings with the Vietnamese, and this dude is one hundred percent correct.
This annoys me like you would not believe, and I'm 110% convinced this is why kids are the way they are these days.
It's worth pointing out that it was the plan all along.
Wait, he's actually gone?
This is a weird Puritanical flex that also misses my point, which is that using protection works. You can have all the holy, wifely sex that you want but that is not what a lot of men and women are doing out there. Condoms work. Birth control works. Hell, abstinence technically works, although pro-abstinence campaigns have been a complete failure for decades. It is super-duper easy to avoid unwanted pregnancies by using protection. I don't think that's a controversial statement.
i mean.. they sure as hell aren't left wing. what are they then? like yes you can say MSM but what's their actual ideology?
The Rhythm Method is how China ended up with a billion people. If you think that shit works you’ve never actually tried it. A woman’s body will find ways to get herself pregnant. Life finds a way.
