Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
The Japanese culture produced Kamikaze pilots that flew planes into ships as a last resort.
Culturally they saw surrender as dishounrable hence the ill treatment of American POWs in the Bataan Death March.
We made it clear that the only way that they could end the conflict was by unconditional surrender.
We warned them about the bomb 3 days prior, the warning was disregarded, boom went Hiroshima.
We then asked for their surrenderd, they basically said maybe. We dropped # 2 and they still didn’t wan’t to give in, it took Hirohito getting on the radio to convince them.
Germany was pretty much the same story. It’s a mind set. Devastation must be willfully and effectively be visited upon the enemy and those that support them.
Winning hearts and minds is not how a war is won, a war is won by the total elimmination of the enemy’s will to fight.
The high end estimate is not enough! In order to decesively win a war one must exact a heavy enough toll to force upon the enemy the fact that further resistance risks the total destruction of themselves, their families, friends, culture, and religion.
Bottom Line:No conflict has been successfully resolved since the end of WW II. If you put the two letters UN in front of any word it negates them!
