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Holy Warrior

MacArthur’s staff was deeply reactionary

The General’s impressive memory

Imposing democracy and American culture on foreign countries goes back at least to our conquest of the Philippines

MacArthur’s father’s view of German-American loyalties and a (self fulfilling?) prophecy of war with Japan

Douglas MacArthur - Chad

MacArthur had shot 9 men by the age of 35

MacArthur met most of his WWII friends and rivals in WWI France. And Harry Truman served under him.

MacArthur’s reforms of cadet life at West Point vs Pershing

New West Point fitness promotion

Modernization of military education curriculum. MacArthur supported poor Billy Mitchell.

MacArthur was similar to Huey Long in that neither were reactionaries, although some in the Roosevelt clique defamed them as such.

We were paying CCC workers more than soldiers during the Depression

Open Japanese subversion in American territories was evident as early as 1934

MacArthur’s reactionary staff and their leader’s reasons for supporting democracy

His wife, like his mother, was a proud Southerner. Hard to imagine a general today reading about Nathan Forrest.

Had MacArthur transported his supplies to defensive positions in Bataan, he could have survived for 4 years under siege

The Japanese in the Philippines defeated an Allied force almost twice their size.

MacArthur’s successful retreat to Bataan, and his failure to bring enough supplies for his troops there.

Racial struggle in the Pacific War

Australia was very vulnerable in early 1942 - most of her young men were fighting in North Africa

The high hopes the American nationalists held for the General, and his public popularity

Aerial resupply kept Port Moresby in Allied hands

MacArthur’s strategy to bypass Japanese strongholds and to cut off enemy communications

MacArthur had an incredible K/D ratio in the Pacific

Women’s suffrage as a tool to break militarism

Yamashita and Homma’s war crimes trials were shams

MacArthur’s victory speech - the neocon dream in its full flowering

Pre-Korean War strategic planning initially excluded Taiwan and Korea

CIA accurately predicted North Korean invasion of the south

Communist spies provided USSR and Red China the UN policies and plans in the Korean War

Some Japanese were quite sorry to see MacArthur return home

San Francisco used to be quite patriotic

MacArthur’s reception by the public of Washington and New York

One of MacArthur’s last speeches - given to West Point cadets