At the time, the defense of Manila was the single most consequential event of the Pacific War from the point of view of the law of armed conflict. Wars-of-continuation decided the fates of Vietnam ...
Jiro Akimaru, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Imperial Japanese Army, in 1991. In a 1991 interview about decision-making leading up to the war, Akimaru said that even within the military ...
Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...