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Key Battles of American History
"japanese army" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"Sense of that, James, there are, in each company, three rifle platoon commanders, four rifle platoon commanders were killed on New Britain. That is a hundred and 30% of what it is because the original three and one of the replacements. That gives you a sense of how unbelievably dangerous that position was. Oh, man. Yeah, definitely. Okay, so moving ahead, they had their rough time on pavo. And by the way, I have to say this land crafts, they really creeped me out. I would have gone insane just from that alone. But they did the best they could. They made the best of it. And then the next major campaign that the company was involved with was of course peleliu and I know some future writers who were involved in the peleliu battle. And others actually said that that was the worst of all. I mean, even worse than Okinawa worse than Guadalcanal. So tell me a little bit about what the company was involved with at peleliu and their experience there. James here, and now a brief word from our sponsors. Well, one of the reasons is going to be so grim for everyone who lands there. And of course, particularly the devil dogs is its size. It's very small. So I talked about New Britain being 370 miles long. This island is 6 miles by two miles, so it's minuscule. It's tiny. And more importantly than that is defended by 11,000 veteran Japanese troops who are very effectively dug in on some incredibly rugged terrain in the center of the island. So not only is it a very small line, it is very rugged in its terrain. It's coral rock. And they have very cleverly dug into this coral rock and created a series of sort of interlocking fire positions and tunnels and defensive positions, which they're going to remain in. Their tactics are changing now. You're not going to get any night attacks. You're not going to get any banzai charges like at Wilkes ridge. What you're going to get is them waiting there until the Americans come on to them. And as a result, of course, the casualties are going to be absolutely horrific. And the other thing to remember is it's been pretty much the same all the way through the Pacific war, but it was even more harshly reminiscent as you got closer to the fighting and the Japanese home islands that the Japanese troops simply would not surrender. And if I tell you that the end of the campaign only 7 Japanese Army soldiers are actually taken prisoner out of around about 10,000, you get a sense of the fanaticism with which they were prepared to fight to the death.
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
"japanese army" Discussed on ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
"I was on patrols. Oh gotcha. Oh, right. Yeah. I don't even know a little bit about fire pro and I'm like, yeah, the Sega Saturn version had no translation at all. It was all in Japanese and I bought it and got it adapter and we played that we figured it out with the, I mean, we use the translation, but I'll tell you what, once you sort of were like, oh, this is where I'm picking moves for a and up. Right. You pretty much like this must be a and down. Exactly. Yeah, we did a pretty good translation by the time we were done on our own. We were like, all right, we get it. Yeah, dude, that was back in the day, man. Misusing everything for D&D. I would misuse all the printers at work, and I would print. I remember there would be people being like, we're out of black ink, you know, on the black and white. That's weird. As I'm sitting on as papers are like in the air around me. And I'm like, I have no clue, man. I remember at work when it would be dead on a weekend when I used to work weekends. And you'd bring in your RPG and you'd talk for hours with the other person, 'cause there was just nothing going on. So Jason and I would just talk about RPGs for like 6 hours. You're like, okay. So a beholder versus a baby dragon. All right, and then Jason was always the guy who was on the whiteboard going Japanese have to invade a European castle. Here's what I think would happen. And he would draw out his Japanese Army and he would draw and he's like, they're ladders would not be long, and he would explain like why he thought, you know, their ladders wouldn't be prepared. And it was funny because now we see those in TV shows, discoveries done like deadliest warriors where they're like samurai versus a master sword.
Business Wars
"japanese army" Discussed on Business Wars
"Three days later, AEG and Toyota's managers sit in the offices of the bomb damaged factory. Unsure what to do next. The war is over. In Japan is both defeated and devastated. 3 million Japanese died in the conflict and millions more are now starving. Its major cities have been bombed into rubble and the country is now under American occupation. With a conflict over, the Japanese Army is no longer buying Toyota trucks. At its peak in 1942, the factory was making 16,000 military trucks annually. Now, the factory is a wreck and resurrection seems unlikely. It is a bewildering moment for the company's managers. None of them are sure how Toyota can go forward. They dejectedly contemplate their uncertain future. But then, one breaks the silence. Surely the country will have to be rebuilt, won't trucks be vital for that effort. So don't we have a duty to restart production and supply trucks to the nation? AEG likes the idea of building trucks again. It would give the company renewed purpose. Toyota used to make passenger cars in small numbers before the war too, but like trucks were always its bread and butter. But now, even that seems impossible. Toyota has no materials, no customers, and its wartime workforce is already packing up and heading home. The office door opens and in walks AG's cousin, Toyota founder to ichiro Toyota. Toyota is key jiro's baby. His dream was to one day produce passenger cars that can rival anything by Ford and General Motors. But the war forced key she wrote to put his dream on hold. As kaichi Rowe walks into the room, aiji greets him. Boss, we were just saying we should restart production. Kiichiro removes his round spectacles and gives AEG a withering stare. Restart production? We don't even know if the Americans will let Toyota continue. And right now we have several thousand employees and their families to look after. Aiji looks down. Our first duty is to give them work and keep them fed. We need to focus on producing what the nation needs close houses, food. We should investigate making things like concrete and fish paste. AEG's head snaps up. He and the others can barely believe their ears. Kaichi ro's ambition to best Detroit's automotive giants drives Toyota. But now, it seems the fires burned out. And like Japan, Toyota is ready to surrender. But the fight to conquer the auto industry is actually just beginning.
History Unplugged Podcast
"japanese army" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"And starts yelling. He remembers because he is another guy who went to school and Japan and took part in their army reserve training there and everything. So he knows all of the Japanese Army military commands. So he stands up and he's yelling like in his Japanese, obviously. To charge to do this, to do that. And the officers in the front ranks have already been mowed down on the enemy. So these soldiers, enemies, soldiers just turn around and they come up the hill and they're actually obeying Roy's orders to charge into the American fire. And so this assault, this enemy assault gets completely defeated, smashed the American battalion survives the night that day and gets relieved the next day there's reinforcements that make it up to them and get them out of there. And so for years after when they would have these reunions for merle's marauders, Rory matsumoto would always be honored as the hero of the battalion and for saving us and the way he did it was he knew how to command the Japanese troops in their own language. It makes one wonder where these sorts of, I guess you could say counter espionage tactics. Comment, this one was impromptu, but if you have soldiers who are ethnically Japanese speak Japanese, then these are the sorts of tools that are in your toolkit are actions like this common or are they few and far between. Why in this specific in terms of, you know, in the middle of an attack and whatnot, I think that's fairly uncommon, but what it was a lot more common, the Japanese soldiers were all kept diaries and what's interesting is American soldiers were not allowed to keep diaries. I mean, they could get in big trouble if you were found to be writing things down in a diary. I mean, even their letters, of course, would censored. But if you write into a diary information about where you're at, what troop movement is, whatever, and then you have it in your pocket, and you get captured and the enemy has it, or you get killed, the enemy can take it out of your pocket, know a lot about your unit, right? But for some reason, the Japanese Army, they didn't prohibit their soldiers from doing that.
History Unplugged Podcast
"japanese army" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"And the Japanese were very arrogant about the difficulty of learning their language and their reading and writing of it. And the Japanese Army sent a lot of stuff in the open. Meaning without even taking the time to code it, just straight Japanese, thinking that, oh, there's not going to be anybody in that none of the marines here. I need a GMO. Are going to know what we're saying. You know? Well, wrong. Because we had these military intelligence teams over about usually ten or 12 nisei, who were listening to the radios who were interrogating prisoners who were there. But again, we didn't want to make that well known. So it was not something that was advertised or written about or boasted about or anything. And so Tom stayed in this school for about another year and taught some other students who then were deployed into the Pacific. And then we follow him in the book in terms of egos to all of these various battles, some of the really iconic battles that we know about. I mean, these guys were everywhere, these say they were an EOG, but they were in Burma. They were in Okinawa. They were at Leyte. They were everywhere. And we really didn't know that. And many, many, many decades without knowing that. And that's what I chose to write about in bridge to the sun. But when Tom is on that chip, getting that surrender from the country of Japan, you know, he's sad for the people of Japan that he knows that they have been bombed and they've really suffered. He's angry at the Japanese military for what they put their own people through, let alone some of the things that they did on the battlefield. And so he was one of, as it turns out, we have these pictures, of course, of on that ship when Macarthur's taking the surrender.
History Unplugged Podcast
"japanese army" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"That means they came directly from Japan to America, but with the laws that were then on the books, none of the immigrants from the eastern countries were really allowed to become American citizens. And in kind of a catch 22, you couldn't own land unless you were an American citizen. So it's set up these immigrants to work the land, if you will, agricultural land, mostly on the West Coast a lot in central California as Tom's parents did. But also the parents, even though they really embraced this new land of theirs, America, you know, they did have strong ties to their ancestral homeland. And they wanted their children to have some appreciation for their culture, their language relatives, even, of course, still living back in Japan. So Tom's parents and a lot of the immigrant parents and even though they didn't have a lot of money, one thinks about, oh, it's traveling abroad for a semester kind of thing. No. But they sent their young children or a year or two back to Japan to live with relatives to go to school there to be immersed in the culture in Japan. And this is what happened with Tom. He was actually there for four years. High school years went to high school in Hiroshima and where his relatives lived. And then when he graduated high school, he was an honor student and he was in what was their equivalent of their ROTC program in the high school there. And upon his graduation, he was offered a commission in the Japanese Army. And of course, this was before the World War II started. This was in about 1930 6, 7 around there. And he, of course, turned it down. He said, you know, I'm an American. I'm going home now. And he did. He came back to the United States. And so he ended up in the army. He ended up being drafted shortly before the war and was actually in the army already when Pearl Harbor was attacked. So he didn't really have a conflict when it came to his patriotism. He considered himself an American first and foremost. He was born here. This was his country. He loved it. Japan was the homeland of his parents and his ancestors. But that said, you know, what a tremendous conflict of emotions. And his parents were, as he stated after the Pearl Harbor attack, his parents really were ashamed at what their country Japan did to this country to America. And but they told Tom, they said, Tom, America is your country. You fight for America. And he set out and we follow him through the entire war.
NPR's Book of the Day
"japanese army" Discussed on NPR's Book of the Day
"Renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog has published his first novel, and the story behind it starts in 1997. Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera, and his hosts informed him that the Japanese emperor might be open to meeting him. When this was reported to me I said to my Japanese Friends for God's sake, it will be only for a boulet and pleasantries in order real conversation. I shouldn't do it a private audience with the emperor is an enormous honor, and Herzog knew instantly that he'd committed a massive faux pas. It was so embarrassing that there was silent silent silence. And then somebody asked into the silence whom else, if not the emperor, would you like to meet in Japan? And I said, oh no da and they ask, I'm not honored and I said, yeah, here go onoda hero onoda was an icon in Japan. An officer in the Imperial Japanese Army with a story stranger than fiction. He was the last soldier to surrender 29 years after the end of the Second World War. In late 1944, onoda was stationed on a small island in the Philippines, when the Japanese Army evacuated onoda was ordered to stay and fight. And so when the Japanese surrendered in 1945, here just offshore from bloody Okinawa, the town number one, carrying part of the Japanese surrender delegation onoda's private war went on for 29 years he waged a guerrilla campaign from the jungle, first with a few other soldiers and ultimately on his own. He stole food from local villagers, he killed civilians and fought gun battles with police officers he believed were enemy agents. And he resisted all attempts to convince him of the truth. Leaflets dropped from planes, copies of current newspapers, even a personal appeal from his own brother. Onoda was sure they were all fabricated enemy propaganda. His story so big, very, very few stories that we have in our cultural history like let's say some dark or Hugo honora or a few more and that's about it. And so nearly 20 years after their meeting in Japan, Werner Herzog turned onoda's story into a novel called the Twilight world.
Key Battles of American History
"japanese army" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"For something to happen. James here, and now a brief word from We are. All right, well, it's going to happen. So the second part of the film is at least as I've broken it down as Shanghai, but after the Japanese invasion. So the family returns to their Shanghai home and early the next morning, Jamie spots a Japanese warship in the harbor, communicating with land forces using flashing lights. Jamie begins using his own flashlight from his room to trying to communicate. And then an explosion throws him back from the window. Later that day, the Japanese move into the city in full force as Chinese and other civilians crowd the streets trying to get out. Jamie's family is able to make it to their limousine, but they're unable to get very far due to the crowds. The streets are just completely packed with people. So they get out of the limo. They find themselves crushed and separated among the crowd. Jamie's mother manages to hold on to Jamie when separated from her husband, but he lets go overhand when he drops his toy plane. He sees his mother being helplessly pushed away and she urges him to return to their mansion. Shortly afterward, Jamie witnesses fighting between the Chinese resistance and the Japanese Army, seeing a man die in front of him for the first time. The resistance fighters are quickly found and killed. Then he gets home and he finds the house empty, but there's a sign saying that is now the property of the Japanese emperor. He sees signs of a struggle and his parents bedroom, perhaps indicating that his mother was taken from the house by force. He hears noise downstairs and he finds the maid of the house with the other Chinese servant stealing furniture. And when he demands to know what they're doing, the servant whom Jim or Jamie at this point treated badly over the years. She just calmly walks over and slaps him in the face and then leaves. All right, difficult times for Jamie, huh? Yeah. Yeah, difficult times. And all of them, all of them. Yeah, for everybody. Yeah, and so this is the there you go, the war has started. And I'm no longer being a British or American is going to keep you safe. Yeah, I mean, your house is cleaned by the emperor. Your own servants are stealing from you. Right. Right. And the chaos in China. I mean, basically, you know, when they go across town to go to the party, either there's massive people trying to get into the settlement from China proper because their refugees. And now that the Japanese have taken over, there is no place to be refugees. So it's chaos everywhere. Everyone's trying to get everywhere. And everyone's trying to get away from.
Behind the Bastards
"japanese army" Discussed on Behind the Bastards
"I mean you know just just to get a sense of the scale of this like there's an individual railroad call the thai burma railroad just alone uses one hundred and eighty thousand. Possibly as many as two hundred seventy thousand people and you know the the the the number in china between nineteen forty one hundred forty five seems for about three million. But you know that that's the only period we have even sort of okay numbers about before that we just don't know and this is also happening in korea. One hundred hundred and ten thousand koreans shift into the arm. Either seven hundred thousand. New yorkers shifted forced labor and key. She is going to import a lot of those people like to japan to do forced labour everywhere. The japanese empire goes. They're doing this and you know and we've talked about episode but how sort of the starts with key she talking about you know kiss. She's like okay. Well we'll we'll put the put the prisoners of war to work and then expands just like you know people who are vigorous and people have jobs and then it's like anyone who opposes us and by by by nineteen forty one. The japanese army is doing slave raids. It'd be between nineteen forty one. Forty t the japanese army burns tens of thousands of chinese villages and they put the survivors concentration camps and they put about they put about one hundred thousand people in these labor camps and of these concepts the thirty to forty percent of them die conscripts. Yeah sure yeah you. That's thirty to thirty. Forty percent is kind of being dragged down by the fact that there are some places where the conditions aren't as bad you know and we're talking about a place where it was really badge. One of the centers of quiches. Five planet manchuria. Is is these coalmines in. And you know these these are the coal mines that are like fueling nissan does show developments and the replacement rate for these workers between nineteen thirty. Eight hundred. forty four was out of every four. The forty thousand workers so they had they had to replace twenty five thousand of them every year. And you know a small number of these people just like escaped but almost everyone else and this is a very small percentage escape almost everyone else..
Can We Health You?
"japanese army" Discussed on Can We Health You?
"All god that makes my head hurt out. That's terrifying three feet across. So the fact that they were thirteen bones doesn't necessarily to these tiger people preclude their main being erhart's so this course. The scientists didn't experiment. They put they wanted to see how perhaps would react to carry animal. Whatever courses They left the remains of a dead on the island and the depth pig. Oh and within two weeks. The coconut crabs along with other crafts swarmed the body and had it entirely cleaned in that two weeks. Ross right there like a car never slather like whatever will eat whatever. Well i mean bottomfeeders right. Yeah so you think they kinda clean. Is you know the blue crabs that we deal with the the ocean clinic health care so this is your life cultures. Yeah so another thing. I read which actually included now. Picking is at wendy's These expeditions go to this. Island will stay overnight. 'cause they're searching searching search and she and they say that during the day crabs like kinda. Give them a wide berth. But at night come in. They swarm and they can't even sleep on the ground. They have to sleep above ground because the crafts are just like they will come and their swarm on top of you. One of them said he shine their light. It looked like thousands of crabs. Big my guy that is. That's like a scene from a horror movie. Yeah they should it should be and then so she and fed would not have stuck around they would. They came to the island. Yeah i mean the climate tree. At night i mean. Can you imagine yeah so this. I find very interesting. So in addition That more recently on this island a jar of freckle cream will sound she. I guess he's freckled rain. Will she have her cold creek. Yes so freckle cream. Whatever obamacare about a freckles. Yeah keep some cover them up. Yeah i have reckless but you know what they fade when you get older anyway. Yeah okay so. There are other conspiracy theories other than the one. We came up with santosh about your hearts disappearance so one theory posits that earhart and noonan were captured and executed by the japanese. See that yeah. I remember when this actually came up. Seventeen so in two thousand seventeen photograph. Yeah supposedly taken by a spy on Loot island was discovered and that seems to show amelia in tribune captives of the japanese army..
SOFREP Radio
"japanese army" Discussed on SOFREP Radio
"Mindanao and they felt the japanese felt thing about the death marches. They have been many throughout the pacific. It was systemic The the level of cruelty was systemic. The level of incompetence systemic in the sense that yes. You can be disorganized. But why do you have to be so cruel and this was where whether you were in the intimate islands where you're on borneo. There's very famous docking death march. Where all of the twenty. Four hundred people who started out only six survived There so this in mindanao they took the american troops were about three hundred or so and they made the wired them together and they made them walk which we think. Twenty five miles. How hard can that be. Well if if you stumble and they ban at you if you try to get something. To drink they bayonet you. If you fall behind they bayonet you the filipinos were made. Take their shoes off and they had a walk on the hot pavement. You have to understand. It was incredibly hot. This is the tropics so like even with the death march. Many of the men made it but they often they died at in droves once they got there something about achieving the goal so what and what is significant about this mindanao death march which has actually a number of names. There were much less survivors but it was a one of the sixteen war-crimes that the filipino prosecutors brought to the tokyo war crimes tribunal. It was consider dad gray that awful that over the top that they raided that with the palo on massacre and the bataan death march. And if you don't know what the palo massacre is and that's significant. For today's foreign policy american foreign policy we have an agreement with the filipinos An enhanced agreement to four defense and were using on airfield on this island. Beautiful island apollo on well. This airfield was built by american. Pow's for the japanese army. Air air corps. They've been called a core force. Was japanese imperial japanese army airplanes. So this an in with by hand there were no no machinery. They had bill from the coral and it was her. It was horrible. Work the hardly fed They were constantly in capriciously tortured and so toward the of when the airfield was finished They left hundred fifty guys there. This is in nineteen forty four december nineteen forty four the. Us was already coming to. the philippines. Had started a approaching and landing in the philippines in october so the japanese There there are some examples of it but there was a kill all owner out for all. Pow's from the japanese. So what they did they had the. Pow's daig era trenches And so one. Day december fourteenth which should live in history They told the men to get in the trenches. They douse them with airplane. Fuel like lit them on fire and machine gun them in any guy who tried to crawl out they may shot machine gun or in some cases played with Some of the. Pow's were smart enough. When they were building the trench to feel something was wrong and the field was on the side of them on a cliff of sorts so they could at one end could actually push out the end to jump in to the water. eleven guys got out some in a water. Some just hiding in the jungle. They were able to japanese. Found some of them and kill them. But the love levin were able to get to across to to some other part In in the pow one where there was a prison colony and there's also guerrillas and when macarthur heard about this he realized he had to step up the rescues. And so if you've seen the movie the great raid liberate the pow camp in january hundred eighty five. The movie starts with the palo on massacre right and One of the men who was rescued there. I wanted to talk about in just a second but I wanted to mention General fort because yes ask. General ford was executed by the japanese later in nineteen forty two. The only american born General offices are be executed during the war right now. That was because he he wouldn't give up his men who joined the guerrillas. That with that is that he was a very tough stern interesting fellow. They wanted him to go into the jungle and get his filipinos and any of the americans back he just was not going to do it and also wasn't going to happen even if he had done it and so the japanese beheaded him it was that simple. It was that simple for for and nfc when people when the japanese have said well. These were just isolated incidences. This does happen put. Wherever the japanese went whether it was a northern china whether it was an aleutian islands. I bet you did know. The japanese invaded the us They beheaded they tortured the humiliated day starved the people around them the aleutian islands is the battle of to the japanese and not also in one thousand nine hundred forty two took over the island of at to the of which there.
KCRW
"japanese army" Discussed on KCRW
"Years ago this month, a small group of revolutionaries founded the Chinese Communist Party in secret on a boat floating in a river near French controlled Shanghai. So fireworks are lighting up the skies of Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities this month in celebration of the CCP's centennial. Now, 100 years is a long time and to mark this moment we wanted to have a conversation about the party's role in the past century of Chinese history, no small feat to assess this and we'll do the best we can and here to help us is Andy Baloo, a historian of China. At Villanova University. Welcome Thanks. Thanks for having me thanks for being with us. So I want you to take us back to China 100 years ago when the Chinese Communist Party was founded. What would you say, were the main challenges that China was struggling with back then? And how did the CCP proposed it would address those problems. Yeah. So I think the first thing to talk about is China at the time was kind of carved up into what is known as the Warlord era. A lot of independent provinces were kind of under the rule of independent military leaders. So the question of who could unify the country was a big concern for a lot of people. Um the flip side of that would be fears of imperialism European and then, especially Japanese powers were seen as Colonizing large territories but especially large chunks of the economy of China, dating back to treaties from the 19th century, But really with the Versailles treaty and what becomes known as the May 4th movement There's a sense of disillusionment with, um let's say, like Western European liberalism. And that's kind of that opening. That kind of opportunity that sparks interesting communism for a lot of intellectuals in China. Um, so I think you know, the Communist Party was dedicated to revolution and class, equality and end of exploitation and all those things we would expect. But in the context of China, it was also very much they were aligned with broader concerns about National reunification. And with anti imperialism well, I want to talk about the figure who is seen as the founding father of the People's Republic of China and that, of course, it's small todung. He led the communist to victory against the Japanese army and the Chinese nationalists. But he also has a mixed legacy right like he presided over the worst famine in China's modern history. He also presided over the Cultural Revolution. The great Leap forward. Can you compare the way his mixed legacy is remembered inside China by Chinese state media versus the way he's remembered outside China. We can start with outside China. I think for much of the rest of the world. Their entry point into understanding the Communist Party is the legacy of the mall years roughly from In terms of being in power from 1940 1919 76 when he passes away, Um and so, Yeah, it's seen as this time of major catastrophe lots. There's famine. There's sort of this unjust persecution of Intellectuals and so on. Um I think for those inside China, there was a strong move starting in the 19 eighties to really redirect the party away from a lot of the political ideals, especially of the cultural revolution. Now. This does not mean that that they denounced Mao and his legacy. The legacy of Mao is always kind of kept intact. They always remember him fondly as the person who successfully unified the country liberated China from imperialism and so on. There's a recent documentary on Chinese television. With a brief kind of history of the party, and they basically skipped from 19 fifties something to like 1978, right to the middle of the mall years on the eve of the great leap forward into the Deng Xiaoping era era of the 19 eighties, and I think that's a pretty good reflection of the state of discourse, which is to say that Officially in public discourse. There isn't a lot of discussion about the greatly forward or the cultural revolution. Now I think a lot of people in China are aware of those events. Obviously, there are family members who survive them. There are stories that are passed down. Um, within China. I think people are less fixated on those events in China. They think of themselves as very modern. Moving on from that in a way that is a little discordant with the rest of the world. Well, you talked about the anti imperialist roots of the Chinese Communist Party when it was founded, And when historians like yourself look back at the party's founding goals. I'm curious where historians believe the CCP has seen the most success over the past century and where they've seen the least success. From the beginning of the establishment of the PRC. The party had this kind of contradiction, right? It was this underground Revolutionary Communist Party. But then it had become a nation state to do all the things that all governments have to do like Fight Wars deal with international relations and to build the economy. You could say the country has been successful again in national strengthening kind of establishing sovereignty over its land. You know, some would say Overland a does not belong to China, Um, having a strong military having a booming economy and so on. They, For the most part, I think have abandoned a lot of the early calls to save the managers of reducing social inequality, Um, especially starting in the 19 eighties and 19 nineties under Deng Xiaoping. The party kind of put forth this idea that they would become much more of a technocratic party right, less invested in politics and much more invested in practical solutions to improving Quality of life and growing the economy. Deng Xiaoping famously talks about how some people in China will have to get rich before the rest of the country gets rich and inequality in China has consistently risen since the 19 eighties. Um, So I think there's been very much sort of abandonment of those earlier collectivist ideals of everyone working together in a very egalitarian manner. We'll finally I want to turn to Hong Kong because, well, we are talking about the 1/100 anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. People in Hong Kong are marking two other anniversaries, the 24th anniversary of the city's handover to China and the first anniversary of the controversial national security law. How How do you think people in Hong Kong Reflecting on those two anniversaries against this broader backdrop of the 1/100 anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, I think there's typically every year been sort of demonstration or protest on July. 1st, um, similar to their typically has been one on June 4th to commemorate the Tiananmen Square incident. In Hong Kong until the last two years where Under the cover of Covid safety laws protection. The government has kind of stopped or band or kind of precluded any sort of public demonstration. I think the average Hong Kong person Knows that it's in their best interest not to Uh, to go against these public orders that this is kind of a dark time in Hong Kong history that as with the national security laws, there's a sense of insecurity and fear about what could happen if they publicly criticized the laws. If anything, the public critics will and I've sort of self reflexive way call upon the Beijing government to honor its promises. So this isn't to say that we need to import Foreign democracy. It is to say when the Beijing government promised the sort of one country, two systems Program, you know, starting in the 19 eighties. They have to continue to honor that. So it's a criticism of the government. That is kind of veiled underneath this sort of, um, staying within the boundaries of what the government has said in the past. Andy be. Lou is a historian of China at Villanova University. Valiantly summing up the last 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party. Thank you so much for joining us today..
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"Years of research. More at align probiotics dot com From NPR news. This is all things considered. I'm Ailsa Chang 100 years ago this month, a small group of revolutionaries founded the Chinese Communist Party in secret. On a boat floating in a river near French controlled Shanghai. So fireworks are lighting up the skies of Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities this month in celebration of the CCP's centennial. Now, 100 years is a long time and to mark this moment we wanted to have a conversation about the party's role in the past century of Chinese history. No small feat to assess this and we'll do the best we can and here to help us is Andy Baloo, a historian of China at Villanova University. Welcome Thanks. Thanks for having me thanks for being with us. So I want you to take us back to China 100 years ago when the Chinese Communist Party was founded, What would you say, were the main challenges that China was struggling with back then? And how did the CCP proposed? It would address those problems. Yeah. So I think the first thing to talk about is China at the time was kind of carved up into what is known as the Warlord era. A lot of independent provinces were kind of under the rule of independent military leaders. So the question of who could unify the country was a big concern for a lot of people. Um the flip side of that would be fears of imperialism European and then, especially Japanese powers were seen as Colonizing large territories but especially large chunks of the economy of China, dating back to treaties from the 19th century, But really with the Versailles treaty and what becomes known as the May 4th movement There's a sense of disillusionment with, um let's say, like Western European liberalism, and that's kind of that opening that kind of opportunity that sparks interest in communism for a lot of intellectuals in China. Um, So I think you know the Communist Party was dedicated to revolution and and class equality and end of exploitation and all those things we would expect, but in the context of China was also very much, um, they were aligned with broader concerns about national reunification. And with anti imperialism well, I want to talk about the figure who is seen as the founding father of the People's Republic of China and that, of course, it's Malta. Dong He led the communist to victory against the Japanese army and the Chinese nationalists. But he also has a mixed legacy right like he presided over the worst famine in China's modern history. He also presided over the Cultural Revolution. The great Leap forward. Can you compare the way his mixed legacy is remembered inside China by Chinese state media versus the way he's remembered outside China. We can start with outside China. I think for much of the rest of the world. Their entry point into understanding the Communist Party is the legacy of the mall years roughly from In terms of being in power from 1940 1919 76 when he passes away, Um and so, Yeah, it's seen as this time of major catastrophe lots. There's famine. There's sort of this unjust persecution of Intellectuals and so on. Um I think for those inside China, there was a strong move starting in the 19 eighties to really redirect the party away from a lot of the political ideals, especially of the cultural revolution. Now. This does not mean that that they denounced Mao and his legacy. The legacy of Mao is always kind of kept intact. They always remember him fondly as the person who successfully unified the country liberated China from imperialism and so on. There's a recent documentary on Chinese television. With a brief kind of history of the party, and they basically skipped from 19 fifties something to like 1978, right to the middle of the mall years on the eve of the great leap forward into the Deng Xiaoping era of the 19 eighties, and I think that's a pretty good reflection of the state of discourse, which is to say that Officially in public discourse. There isn't a lot of discussion about the greatly forward or the cultural revolution. Now I think a lot of people in China are aware of those events. Obviously, there are family members who survive them. There are stories that are passed down. Um, within China. I think people are less fixated on those events in China. They think of themselves as very modern. Moving on from that in a way that is a little discordant with the rest of the world. Well, you talked about the anti imperialist roots of the Chinese Communist Party when it was founded, And when historians like yourself look back at the party's founding goals. I'm curious where historians believe the CCP has seen the most success over the past century and where they've seen the least success. From the beginning of the establishment of the PRC. The party had this kind of contradiction, right? It was this underground Revolutionary Communist Party. But then it had become a nation state to do all the things that all governments have to do like Fight Wars deal with international relations and to build the economy. You could say the country has been successful again in national strengthening kind of establishing sovereignty over its land. You know, someone say Overland, a does not belong to China. Having a strong military having a booming economy and so on. They, For the most part, I think have abandoned a lot of the early goals to save the managers of producing social inequality. Especially starting in the 19 eighties and 19 nineties under Deng Xiaoping, the party kind of put forth this idea that they would become much more of a technocratic party right, less invested in politics and much more invested in practical solutions. To improving quality of life and growing the economy. Deng Xiaoping famously talks about how some people in China will have to get rich before the rest of the country gets rich and inequality in China has consistently risen since the 19 eighties. Um, So I think there's been very much sort of abandonment of those earlier collectivist ideals of everyone working together in a very egalitarian manner. We'll finally I want to turn to Hong Kong because, well, we are talking about the 1/100 anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. People in Hong Kong are marking two other anniversaries, the 24th anniversary of the city's handover to China and the first anniversary of the controversial national security law. How How do you think people in Hong Kong Reflecting on those two anniversaries against this broader backdrop of the 1/100 anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, I think there's typically every year been sort of demonstration or protest on July. 1st, um, similar to their typically has been one on June 4th to commemorate the Tiananmen Square incident. Um in Hong Kong until the last two years where Under the cover of Covid safety laws protection. The government has kind of stopped or band or kind of precluded any sort of public demonstration. I think the average Hong Kong person Knows that it's in their best interest not to Uh, to go against these public orders that this is kind of a dark time in Hong Kong history that as with the national security laws, there's a sense of insecurity and fear about what could happen if they publicly criticized the laws. If anything, the public critics will, you know, sort of self reflexive way call upon the Beijing government to honor its promises. So this isn't to say that we need to import Foreign democracy. It is to say when the Beijing government promised the sort of one country, two systems Program, you know, starting in the 19 eighties. They have to continue to honor that. So it's a criticism of the government. That is kind of veiled underneath this sort of, um, staying within the boundaries of what the government has said in the past. Andy be. Lou is a historian of China at Villanova University. Valiantly summing up the last 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. It's w N Y scene. You're listening to all things considered. Just ahead After news headlines for the first time in its history, Amazon has a CEO who is not.
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"Of our telecast for seven years six years seven probably would you say that there is a darkness to me while when we sometimes we get into a deep philosophical conversation or about people but is it darkness. Or am i more disgusted about things. People people disgust you as they should. That's that's another way. I say dark darkness. You're coming at it from a pessimistic view. When he reads a story of that is a fact when he reads a people are garbage. That is a fact that we are. We got it. We've been knock retyping filth. Filth developed that. Everybody's a god damn judgmental judgment. That does drive me crazy now. Honestly i only people are useless. I don't think i'm judge mental. Actually i don't god most people don't get it they just don't get it. I mean that sounds everyone else at some point is going to let you down because as i was truthful saute if he would stop play the clip for pinon is nothing. Like you. don't know what you're talking about. That might have actually been directed out for something. I'm not sure exactly what i swear to god. Those things sound like a therapy session all right so let's put it now alternative to you. Let's say al present you with a story about an adult doing something horrific to a child and then he wants you to react that a lot of times. That's where that stuff comes rise. He's not really just the inflammatory story. That he knows is going to get a reaction out of you. Probably most likely you're going to say exactly what most of us would think. Yes say exactly right. That is exactly the point. Hey michael in maine. What's happened to michael guys. What's going on all right okay. So a chinese guy found the skull. I think it was in the nineteen thirties. Yes but the. The japanese army was common so he hit the skull and a well and the just rediscovered it so they haven't had it in their possession. Exactly the skull was in a well About that no joke. No joke no joke. A skull was in well and just discovered now so weird like to think three hundred nine thousand years ago. There was something walking around this earth. You know the amazing thing to me is when you think about it Jerry is how many things haven't been discovered yet like what. What does that mean while there are things out there that we're finding every single day that we never even knew existed. All right what example. I can give you an example right now. The nature of the universe itself whether it's really expanding all that what is dark matter. What all that space stuff and even stuff that still that we're finding in the ocean depths of the bottom. Most of it is unexplored. An unknown right exactly so we're still exploring essentially explores and still trying to find out more about who we are where we've come from what's going on around a series question i know eddie does do you wanna know things better left just alone just living alone just alone Well it all depends on really what. I want to know if if i could no when i was going to pass on for instance. There's an after what i wanna know. Now i would not wanna know. I'd just rather just keep going until that day happens really so you wouldn't want to know that there's an afterlife.
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"Me like growing up here i think i really resented kind of a minority model minority myth. Because i'm like. I'm not good at math like this like. That's not me so like one it means. I'm either bad at being like korean or to like this is just like some bs at like. I'm frustrated that like people are trying to pigeonhole me. So i found a lot of pride initially just like intentionally not being the things that people expected to be. Maybe that's actually what noah was doing. You're trying to be something that's up and expecting to be. Are you familiar with the concept of han. I don't think so. We learned about this watching anthony bourdain. He had an episode in los angeles. Where A chunk of the episode in koreatown needs with david joe. David show which is one of the artists that i feel like. He's in everything we want. He's got a free time. He had stock early stock in facebook. He says everyone But anyways Days at dinner with david chose family. And they talked about the concept of han. I feel more than acted or well i. I was thinking about it because i was connecting to identity end. Like the way that japanese culture became so intertwined with korean culture like once occupation ended for people who for koreans living in japan or crane people living in korea win. It had been so long. That like you see with solomon's character like he's sort of watch him try and figure out like where is my home and what is. My identity am korean japanese. What am i. And so i was thinking about like the long term impact of japanese occupation and i remembered this episode that we watched in which david and his parents who immigrated from korea. Talked about the concept of han. And it's like a. I think the way you translated beautiful suffering. I had sorrow grief resentment. Loss of adobe the. Yeah it's it's i think some scholars invented it. And i don't know how valid. Which is why. I wanted to ask you if you heard about if your thoughts about it. I think it was a way to try and describe the kind of lasting drive and resentments and long suffering that had been left by the japanese occupying courses is my understanding. Ya was a culture even need. It's not as widely spread as we thought watching that episode of parts unknown. But there's a word for the type of generational trauma increase. Yeah that many crans carry. I don't know that's civic term per se. But i certainly see like culturally like for instance When i was in korea. There's actually a band or not a ban a boycott of japanese products in company. So for instance like when we were there but a lot of like natives would not shop at unique low because unique loans a japanese company. It happens to be really popular in korea and there is the argument of like well who suffering because it does maybe bought bother unique lows corporate bottom line a little bit but are are the korean franchisee owners like who run that shop. Aren't they the ones who actually suffering more than so it's like well. What point the early driving at. But i that whole thing though had come up because again other like more complex geopolitics here but because initially a prime minister obey in japan refused to like acknowledge. Apologize for the comfort women. That were used like basically. The japanese army would like abduct any in the book. They talk about all the time. Like alonzo was always like Tanja he was. Oh don't follow anybody who's like a we have jobs for you in china like a good manufacturing job. It's a job for you but you're not going to be paid for it and you're going to be like a sexually violated. And so i think they were like. Oh well we like blatantly. Apologize back in the sixties or something so there were descendants. Actually maybe some living survivors of koreans. Who lived during the second world war. Who essentially did like fourth slave labor for japanese companies and those companies profited from that and deal the supreme court of korea. So i took these cases said yeah like you know. We think it would be fair if those japanese companies paid reparations to these families and the japanese companies like now like i don't think we're gonna do that Or you can come in individually like settle your claim individually. But we're not gonna do have a blanket policy on that after that koreans are like by products and then after that the japanese were like okay. We'll even though you're like right next to us Wor- your we're taking you off of our like eight plus trading partners list so you can no longer get like overnight like shipping of like mike these important microchips that like are using cell phones. Like samsung and lg. You have to wait like a full seven days. Even though you take the slowest ship from japan to korea wouldn't take you know. There's a lot of like that kind of animosity. So all that to say i i think boils down to just like just like any other misunderstanding. Where like if one person gets hurt and other person doesn't like properly acknowledged her like really apologize like the weight of what they did. You still feel like like wrong right. I think most would so. I think that's probably a lot of that. Derives from also art of the create identity is suffering. They talk about that a lot in the books. More specifically for the women in particular. There's actually a phrase in korean and they mentioned briefly in the book that says It's like the word causing which is to suffer and so like it's interchangeable though. If like my mom said to me causing no money which means like oh. You must have suffered so much also meeting like work so hard and it's like a good thing like alcohol you know but in context it could also be a bad thing if you're like saying literally as well so it was just interesting thing but i think that does explain a lot of the drive which you mentioned julia like picking itself up by its bootstraps Second world war. And just after the korean war rather than like like a top twenty like economy in the world so i mean the speed of grove south korea like didn't exist and then all of a sudden it did and now it's like one of the like top twenty economies or whatever like pretty incredible rebuilding. Yeah for sure. Only if the characters in the book new you know kind of wrapping things. Up i am. We talked a lot about how pachinko shares not only the individual families history kind of wraps it in this larger historical context and one of the. I think great things that historical non or historical fiction can do is kinda give story a narrative to places where into perspectives. That maybe we've overlooked or the history textbooks Completely disregard and i found the first sentence relate. You were talking about earlier today. The first sentence of the novel very interesting history has failed us but no.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"japanese army" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"I think that there there is some cultural dimension to that The command culture of the imperial japanese navy and the army were very rigid. it was very hierarchical organization and and when they Made their plans Their plans they often were unable to adapt those plans Partly just because of the the way that The command relationships worked within the command ladder. Japanese military no. In fact you you make the point that in addition to lying to the people often the army and the navy would simply to one another which which which made us quite struggle to come up with an appropriate strategic picture. I guess. I have one follow up to that One of the ways in which political scientists thinking that organizations learns experiential. Learning right by experience. Have a battle you figure out what went wrong. And you do better right. In this process the catalog with respect to the american amphibious assaults. The japanese were literally annihilated in battle after battle on these islands. Right how how did they figure out that part of the answer was to build these tunnels systems and then sort of repeat that over and over again right where we're literally on the previous island. There were no survivors of the battle. Was there enough communication that sort of enabled them to to be able to notice. The americans really really had trouble with really had problems with these kinds of tactics that appears to have been the result of a series of conversations. That were going on within the japanese army in particular not at the top layer but sort of in the middle ranks. So kind of you know colonels. You had elite colonels both in the in the field and in the headquarters who were studying very carefully. What had happened. And we're talking to each other and then so on the island of peleliu for example where you really have. These kinds of tactics call them honeycomb tactics of digging into the brown digging an extensive network of tunnels bunkers on being able to place most of your troops underneath the ground in order to protect them from overwhelming. Us firepower in the fight from essentially these these underground fortifications on peleliu. That was the colonel who committed that garrison essentially had his own idea for how he wanted to fight that battle because he's isolated on an island that is remote even by the standards of the pacific peleliu in the palau drew but five hundred miles east of the philippines. He was essentially able to set up his forces in his defense team. The way.
KDWN 720AM
"japanese army" Discussed on KDWN 720AM
"But there is some of the right involved and I am I'm optimistic that a new political party is going to be created called the Patriot Party, and I think that's probably going to happen that sometime in the near future, Would you like to make a wager? And I'm not gonna make a wager with you and I am going to On and I'm I'm I'm thankful that I I think America is going to look at Joe Biden and they're really going to. Well, First of all the media's they're gonna realize that that no one cares. What by NASA say what Donald Trump did was he made politics cool. He made politics interesting. And media rate is gonna get destroyed. And at some point they're gonna start trying toe to create a new Donald Trump out of the Biden administration, and I'm not gonna be able to do it, but I think that people are are going to really Judge Joe Biden on what he does instead of what he says. And so I'm thankful for that. But I just I am worried about the future of this country because of The things that the bite administration is already talking about doing it and how how Just unreasonable they are and how illogical there on how they won't work here. Not bad fact chat. If you want to use the term unreasonable, I would say that would be the last four years. But go ahead channel give you the last word. Well, that hits my thoughts and prayers. It seems of JD's very sad. It'll be saying you're with you lived through the Obama administration for eight years. Shut up by administration was was nothing. Let me respond him now, Chad, I'm on your side. And if anybody wants to send JD any anti depressants, of course, prescription medication, you have to see a doctor fish. I would recommend JD goes and see someone to talk to somebody because I'd be depressed. If I know one thing I'm depressed by or that I will be depressed by Joe Biden. Joe Biden was making a joke, JD. Why do you always have to be served by this is going to destroy the keys, Mike. You know, the Keystone XL pipeline laugh and our gas prices. Every gas prices are going to go through the roof. Okay, I know you're concerned about gas going driving escalate. Well, you should take some Pepto Bismol. Get 11.26 11 9 MPG. I'm bursting about gas. I've been concerned about your gas on about it. For the record. I have been concerned about your gas for two years. You smell up this studio. It's horrible. Appreciate the compliment, but you gotta get your laugh. Listen, if you need antidepressants, there's nothing wrong. Promise you I do not. Okay. I care about you. I just want to make sure you're not depressed. That's all. It's a fair question. All right, let's go to Jim 2575396 Jims Next. Hi, Jim. What's up, Jim? Good morning. Yeah, I was watching the very, very inspiring inauguration. I never thought I'd say this on your air. But I actually agree with J D about something after the formation of a third party, and I think you do have the roots of it within the Trump supporters in the Republican Party and the large number of independents who voted for him. But I wouldn't call it the Patriot Party. Would call the O Neither party and I'll tell you why. Hero. Nada was a lieutenant in the Japanese Army in World War two. And he was the last soldier in the Japanese army to surrender and he held out till 1974. And that's I think 30 years is probably about as long as you guys In that new Republican party. A good keep insisting that Biden was not illegal, Victor. I'm no, I will. Till the day I die. I will say that Biden did not win the presence here. Do you think that's fine? That's my opinion. I'm entitled to my opinion. This is why I am I absolutely am. And so are you. And that's in there. That's totally fine. You how badly you have damaged the JD brand your opinion. I have not damaged my brand whatsoever. Let me suggest why I have stayed. I have stayed true to my word. I have stayed true to my beliefs. Okay, when you're building when you're building a brand people look for consistency, and I've been very consistent now. I will say this. I have been a little more radical in my in my thought process and in the things that I posted things that stay online. But can we live in very radical times right now doesn't mean you have to be a radical person. That's not how it damaged again. When you started the wager fund, you said you were going to be applying modern analytic methods used by hedge fund analyst Which you're all statistically based. You got all your money from people who were involved with commodity buying out of Iowa. You have totally made a joke of all that statistical analysis, you know? Honestly, I don't I don't talk about that. I don't talk about this enough, but I know you ruined your economic grant. I don't know Just gonna trust anymore. Don't talk about this. And that was a great 30 years. You and the rest of the guys in the oh, not a party. Okay, not a party. But don't talk about this enough, but I'm not a part like that. I am an extremely successful sports better, and I did start a company called the Wage of Fun a couple years ago. And of Las Vegas. It was like a hedge fund. Recon recon, raise money from inside inside the country outside the country, and you could use it to bet sports and Las Vegas..
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Who was Mad Mike Hoare?
"The story of might hose life which ended peacefully early this week after one. Hundred Turbulent years reads like these synopsis of an absurd overcooked movie. Indeed one episode of Mike. 'cause life was the Synopsis Foreign Absurd overcooked action movie. Nineteen seventy eight. The Wild Geese in which Richard Burton plays a swashbuckling soldier of fortune called Colonel Allen Faulkner a character who similarities to Mike hough stretched to breaking point the traditional cinematic disclaimer about resemblance blogs to persons living or dead. Being purely coincidental. I get across the railway. Not Answerable Choice. I mean the real McCoy and I love being in the presence of all hardman necessarily Ruffians but men men who can live hard core walls to an almost cartoonish degree what we think of when we think of mercenaries the buccaneering rogue in Berry fatigues cravat overthrowing or undermining governments in generally poor countries at the behest of generally rich people equal parts. It's guerilla commander and showman. Most people would have bristled at the nickname mad. Mike Mad Mike hough understood it as the calling card and the sales pitch which would help him to more or less invent the modern idea of the mercenary as an effective but handily deniable instrument of foreign policy. Mike Hall was born in Calcutta to Irish parents on March seventeenth some Patrick's day nine thousand nine hundred. Nineteen he volunteered for the British army at the outbreak of World War Two joined the London Irish rifles and later the Royal Armed Corps. He fought in the famously. Brutal campaigns leans against the Imperial Japanese army in Burma and India and reached the rank of major. He served with the Chin dates the British special operations units which specialized sized in behind the lines raids. That's the name for the Guardian Statue. Is that standard the steps of his pagoda. A name from legend that's become flesh and blood living guardians
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Fire nearly destroys historic Japanese castle
"Tonight a massive fire destroyed part of this historic castle in Okinawa Japan flame spread to several buildings of the Shuri castle it's a UNESCO world heritage site it's unclear how the fire started but at least two temples have burned to the ground tonight Shuri castle acted as local headquarters for the Imperial Japanese Army in World War two and was rebuilt after being destroyed in the battle of
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How Has the Korean War Changed History?
"On June twenty-fifth nineteen fifty North Korean tanks rolled across the thirty eighth parallel the line that separated communist North Korea from US-backed South Korea, as a now, declassified US intelligence cable from Tokyo to Washington concluded, the incursion wasn't just a mere raid, quote the size of the North Korean forces employed, the depth of penetration the intensity of the attack and the landings made miles south of the parallel on the east coast indicated that the North Koreans are engaged in all out offensive to subjugate, South Korea. It was the start of a war that is still not ended a full seven decades later. The Korean war, which ultimately would pit the US against China in the first ever, confrontation between the two superpowers would claim the lives of an estimated two point five million military members and civilians including nearly thirty four thousand Americans the fighting would cease with an armistice on July twenty seventh nineteen fifty three but the Geneva conference of nineteen fifty four failed to produce a peace treaty in the north and south remained tense enemies, and that's the way things have pretty much continued, though in twenty eighteen North Korean dictator Kim Jong UN and South Korean president Mundi een announced that they would work together toward a peace treaty. But after the collapse of February summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong those tensions seemed likely to remain for a while longer. In the US the Korean war is sometimes called the forgotten war, because it's overshadowed by the conflicts that came before, and after it the stirring victory of World War Two, and the lengthy, painful ordeal of the Vietnam war. We spoke with Edward roads. A professor on the faculty of the shar school of policy and government at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia, who's an expert in American foreign, and national security policy. He said modern Americans don't think about it much. Vietnam was more dramatic. And World War Two is more in victorious. Nevertheless, the overlooked conflict has exerted a powerful influence that still felt today according to roads, the war forever changed the course of US foreign, and national security policy. Compelling the US to accept a permanent military involvement around the globe, even in peacetime. It also helped drive, the creation of a vast US nuclear arsenal to deter possible, communist aggression with the threat of annihilation and a global nuclear arms race. Still continues all this happened, according to roads after career. A nation that had been occupied by the Japanese from nineteen ten to nineteen Forty-five was split into two by the US, and the USSR after World War Two, he explains, it was a practical matter. There were Japanese armies that had retreated into Korea from insurer, and they needed to be disarmed. We split that large task with the Soviet Union the understanding that the Soviets would design the Japanese in the north, and we would do it in the south, but as the Cold War developed between the US and its European allies and the Soviets, the temporary partition turned into a permanent one with the formation of a communist regime headed by Kim Il Sung in the north at an authoritarian pro American government headed by Sigmund, e in the south each regime sought self as the real government of Korea and its rival as illegitimate. Kim Il Sung decided to settle the matter by invading South Korea. And in may nineteen fifty finally obtained reluctant approval from his patron these stallion regime about a month later. Kim launched a surprise attack which initially had devastating result. What's the South Korean forces essentially dissolved the UN Security, Council taking advantage of a Soviet boycott of the body, then passed a measure, calling for member nations to assist the beleaguered South Koreans that mandate enabled US president Harry Truman to respond militarily without having to go to congress for a declaration of war. Up until that point, the US hadn't seen South Korea's having much strategic importance erode said, but when the North Korean tanks rolled across the border, the image that flashed in Truman's mind was that this was a repeat of what the Nazis did his responses to stand up thinking that if we had stood up to Hitler early on the world would have been a better place, an outnumbered contingent of UN forces formed, a desperate line of defense around the only part of South Korea, not yet, captured by the communists and managed to hold off the invaders for two months that gave General Douglas MacArthur, who had been placed in overall command of the UN forces enough time to make an audacious and fibia landing at Inchon near the South Korean capital of Seoul on September fifteenth. Nineteen fifty cutting off the over extended North Koreans MacArthur's forces chased the invaders back north across the thirty eighth parallel and by mid October had captured the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, but MacArthur overconfident kept pushing the North Koreans back to the Yellow River the border with China, China. Responded with a massive counterattack of between thirteen thousand and three hundred thousand troops. This time it was the UN forces who were driven back a bloody stalemate on the ground developed as the US pounded North Korea from the air MacArthur, eventually was relieved of his command by Truman and replaced with general Matthew Ridgway. The US abandoned the idea of total victory and shifted to a holding action against the communist forces road said MacArthur embraced the idea that there's no substitute for victory. You beat the enemy, and they surrender. But Rhodes explained after the Chinese intervention, quote, we're still in a situation where there's got to be a substitute for victory because how are we going to fight the manpower of China? There's a realization that we can't fight this war to victory and it's hard for the American people to accept. The longer. The war stretched on the more popular it became back in the US, many of the soldiers sent to Korea where reservists who had served in World War, Two roads, explained they've got homes and families and jobs, and then they were called up and sent to fight another war. There was a feeling that this wasn't fair. Eventually Truman successor president. Dwight Eisenhower ran on a promise that he would go to Korea and seek an end to the conflict and actually did that a month before his inauguration in nineteen Fifty-three. But though, Eisenhower had ended the fighting the Korean war still shaped his policies road said, Eisenhower looked at this as the wrong war at the wrong time using the wrong weapons, he reaches the conclusion that with the Cold War going on with the Soviets, we have to plan for the long haul. We're going to sustain this kind of military deterrence that led to resources being pumped into the development of a massive nuclear deterrent. The could be used to contain the Soviets. Additionally, Eisenhower began attempting to form licenses with more and more countries in an effort to create a unified front to hold off communist aggression. We also spoke via Email with Charles k Armstrong, the Korea foundation professor of Korean studies in the social sciences at Columbia University. He said, the US was forced to take China more. Seriously as a military power. After fighting twist del mate in the Korean war general MacArthur, had severely underestimated the Chinese military's willingness to confront the US and capacity to fight leading to a bad route for you, enforces, the initial months after China entered the war. China's participation in the Korean war. Also consolidated malls rule and asked the hopes of sub Americans. The communist regime could be rolled back and replaced by Changcai checks nationalists. Armstrong said mouse willingness to support the North Koreans directly as opposed to stallions reluctance helped solidify China North Korean relations, and caused the North Koreans to be more distrustful of the Russians for the US China was seen from the Korean war onward as the primary ally of North Korea. And the primary great power that was an enemy of the US in Korea. Armistice, ended the fighting but North Korea now backed by the Chinese remained as a belligerent enemy to South Korea, the ongoing threatment that US forces couldn't just withdrawn come home Armstrong, notes, the North Korean invasion in the emerging Cold War convinced American policymakers that the US needed a permanent military presence in Asia and Europe in order to contain communist aggression. Additionally, the Korean war helped set the table for another even bloodier, and more painful future conflict, according to Armstrong Korea led directly to the US decision to help the French against communist led insurgency in colonial Vietnam, and then after the French defeat to intervene in support of an anti communist regime in South Vietnam, which blocked an election called for by the nineteen fifty four Geneva conference that helps set the stage for the Vietnam war. Armstrong, said the most lasting legacy of the Korean war for the US was these stablishment of a global military presence over the long term and a commitment to confront communism throughout the world during the Cold War. And for Korea and East Asia ideological and military confrontation that has lasted seven decades that included a US force stationed in South Korea as a deterrent to North Korea, which in turn has a massive array of long range, artillery, and rockets equipped with chemical and biological weapons aimed at Seoul. That's in addition to the nuclear weapons and ballistic missile arsenal. The Trump so far has been unable to persuade the North Korean regime to give up.