Author: Andrew Wright
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An Honest Reflection on the Canadian Election
“Politics should not be a lifelong career.” -Pierre Poilievre The Liberal Party of Canada just did what few democratic, incumbent governments have pulled off in the last two years: Not only survive an election but improve its position. Four months ago, it was a doomed entity. Justin Trudeau’s popularity was sinking like the Titanic and…
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Chapter 8: America Strikes Back
August 6, 2024 “It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.” -Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku As noted in the last chapter, after Japan seized its first objectives in the early months of the Asia-Pacific War it had several options available. Despite the…
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Chapter 7: The Beginning of the Asia-Pacific War Part 2
June 11, 2024 “We are paying very heavily now for failing to face the insurance premiums essential for security of an Empire!” -General Alan Brooke Unlike Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, and other territories Japan attacked in 1941, the Philippines had few natural resources needed for autarky, or fuel its war machine. There has been debate…
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Chapter 6: The Beginning of the Asia-Pacific War Part 1
February 21, 2024 “There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.” -Niccolo Machiavelli Unlike the campaigns of the Second Sino-Japanese War the opening campaigns of the Asia-Pacific War are thoroughly represented in western historiography. However, the military campaigns of the Second Sino-Japanese War are often easier to describe…
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Chapter 5: America and Japan Move Towards War
January 29, 2024 “Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left – her most powerful enemies in the South Sea all flanking her. It is this international situation that constitutes one of Japan’s great weaknesses.” -Chiang Kai-Shek The International Situation in 1941 and the…
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Chapter 4: The War Expands and China Remains Defiant (from “A Brief Military History of the Japanese Empire”)
Chapter 4: The War Expands and China Remains Defiant (from “A Brief Military History of the Japanese Empire”) January 5, 2024 “There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.” -Niccolo Machiavelli Political Developments in Asia and War comes to Europe (1939-1940) Coinciding with the Imperial Japanese Army’s offensives on…