If you're willing to invest a few dollars, Parshall and Tully's <em>Shattered Sword</em> is an excellent read on the Battle of Midway, particularly its focus on the Japanese side. It also touches on the culture of the Japanese Navy and some of the naval tactics (especially naval air) that came from that culture. In addition (imo) it's also an easy read, especially for a history book.
For anybody interested in Midway, I strongly recommend Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
lol can you go on a bit?
I know I’m missing something because it makes no damn sense to me.
> So, sure, naval operations are very complicated. A game can never mimic the true experience, I admit. But if it tried to be realistic, it would be boring (why play a game if you could study or work in the navy?). At the same time, if it were pure entertainment, no message would be transmitted. Nothing gained. A person may play some addictive game and drop it in the next moment because there is no craft, no creation, just dopamine. A good BALANCE is needed to get the best of both worlds. Enterprise is a ship that escaped destruction, was marked as sunken by enemies, and was called the gray ghost. Thus, she is a woman with gray hair, a bow that shoots airplanes, and a serious, monotone voice that was developed as she survived war seeing most of her comrade ships disappear by the end of the war. This idea is not easy. It took studying. It took coordination. It took heart. Ask someone random down the street if they know anything about Enterprise (they probably don’t even know that ships have names). Now consider that there was some talent behind drawing, making the story follow and diverge from reality, so on and so forth. I don’t know if you were talking about Azur Lane or Kancolle (another ship girl game) or something else, but these games and shows are popular. It is not going to be for everyone, but a lot of people like these games, find meaning in it, and, yes, have the ability to make beautiful fan art because they are in depicted as girls.
I thought autistic guys would get really into <em>Shattered Sword</em> if they like ships, <em>The Price of Alliance: The Politics and Procurement of Leopard Tanks for Canada's NATO Brigade</em> if they like AFVs. This is... not that lol.
Shattered Sword. Insightful look at Midway.
First I linked you comments after, then before. You've provided zero sources to back your claims.
>However, historians Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully have made an argument against this interpretation, stating that the Japanese invaded the Aleutians to protect the northern flank of their empire and did not intend it as a diversion
http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Sword-Untold-Battle-Midway/dp/1574889249
Good day.
>The level of ignorance and hypocrisy here is so unreal and offensive. Are you really going to criticize me for dismissing a non-academic source, then dismiss a respected historian because he is Japanese?!
Yes. I am dismissing him because the Japanese are biased in everything regarding their conduct during WWII. There is no reason to trust any source by them after 1945 about WWII, as they have been in heavy denial mode since then. They barely acknowledge the Rape of Nanking, Unit 731, and other atrocities, and heavily downplay them.
> I bet you haven't even read any of the links I've provided. In fact it's pretty obvious, given your bullshit fun-facts about the Japanese military.
Like how they constantly denied fault, hid losses, and so forth and so on? Try reading Shattered Sword. It wasn't atypical.
>Japanese sources should be ignored?! Please, please, please tell me you are not serious, because that is so unbelievably ignorant.
No, it actually isn't. As I have stated, they have consistently downplayed or ignored their atrocities.
>If that is the case, then American sources should be ignored because they "have a large vested interest in being noble victors, who bring justice and peace, so that their many shameful acts are not at all the topic of discussion about the war in the Pacific."
This is not at all comparable, because for starters, the US acknowledges such things. However, they do give context to them (such as the fact that Marines in the Pacific often killed Japanese who were "attempting" to surrender, because those attempts were usually just ploys to kill additional enemies before they were killed).
Right-wing Japanese have, very consistently, since 1945 gone to great lengths to downplay their every crime and paint themselves as the victims in their war of aggression. Taking their word, using anything written after 1945, for this discussion is quite foolish indeed.
The only evidence usable in any WWII discussion is documents from WWII. Anything else has people scrambling to avoid blame, guilt, shame, and paint themselves in better light.
If you look exclusively at documents from the time frame, and treat all recollections (including by Americans) subsequent as self-serving statements, you will get a much clearer picture.