Interrogations of Japanese Officials
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 1946
Category : History
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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 1946
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Japan
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Author : Monica Kim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 069121042X
Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The interrogation rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject, forging the template for the U.S. wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Kim looks at how, during the armistice negotiations, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room: one in which POWs could exercise their "free will" and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation's right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners -- Japanese-American interrogators, Indian military personnel, Korean POWs and interrogators, and American POWs -- that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in U.S. popular memory of "brainwashing" during the Korean War
Author : James A. Stone
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437934935
Contents: (1) Interrogation of Japanese POWs in WW2: U.S. Response to a Formidable Challenge. Military leaders, often working with civilian counterparts, created and implemented successful strategies, building on cultural and linguistic skills that substantially aided the war effort for the U.S. and its Allies. (2) Unveiling Charlie: U.S. Interrogators¿ Creative Successes Against Insurgents. Highlights the importance of a deep understanding of the language, psychol., and culture of adversaries and potential allies in other countries. (3) The Accidental Interrogator: A Case Study and Review of U.S. Army Special Forces Interrogations in Iraq. Offers recommendations that are likely to increase the effectiveness of U.S. interrogation practices in the field. Illus.
Author : United States. Army Air Forces Intelligence Service
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Aeronautics, Military
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Author : Douglas MacArthur
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 1966
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Douglas MacArthur
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 1966
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Herman S. Wolk
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1574412817
The B-29 long-range bombing campaign against the Japanese home islands dictated unprecedented organization and command; hence, Arnold established the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by himself from Washington and reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This new type of bombing offensive-distinct in command, organization, range, and weapons from the European experience-also called for exemplary operational combat leadership in the field. Here Arnold excelled in his command of the AAF, relieving a long-time colleague (Hansell) in favor of a hard-nosed operator (LeMay). This crucial move was a turning point in the Pacific war. Although the Soviet declaration of war on Japan was a factor in the Japanese surrender, it was the atomic bomb that politically shocked the Japanese to capitulation. Arnold, the architect of the bombing offensive, emphasized that Japan was already defeated in the summer of 1945 by the bombing and blockade and that it was not militarily necessary to drop the atomic bomb.
Author : Tom Lewis
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 161200945X
A thought-provoking analysis of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and what might have happened if conventional weapons were used instead. It has always been a difficult concept to stomach—that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, causing such horrific suffering and destruction, also brought about peace. Attitudes toward the event have changed through the years, from grateful relief that World War II was ended to widespread condemnation of the United States. Atomic Salvation investigates the full situation—examining documents from both Japanese and Allied sources, but also using in-depth analysis to extend beyond the mere recounting of statistics. It charts the full extent of the possible casualties on both sides had a conventional assault akin to D-Day gone ahead against Japan. The work is not concerned solely with the military necessity to use the bombs; it also investigates why that necessity has been increasingly challenged over the successive decades. Controversially, the book demonstrates that Japan would have suffered far greater casualties—likely around 28 million—if the nation had been attacked in the manner by which Germany was defeated: by amphibious assault, artillery and air attacks preceding infantry insertion, and finally by subduing the last of the defenders of the enemy capital. It also investigates the enormous political pressure placed on America as a result of their military situation. The Truman administration had little choice but to use the new weapon given the more than a million deaths that Allied forces would undoubtedly have suffered through conventional assault. By chartingreaction to the bombings over time, Atomic Salvation shows that there has been relentless pressure on the world to condemn what at the time was seen as the best, and only, military solution to end the conflict. Never has such an exhaustive analysis been made of the necessity behind bringing World War II to a halt.
Author : Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1966
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :