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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷4/18/2017 11:37:20 pm PDT

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Yesterday was the seventy-fifth anniversary of Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo.

Although the raid achieved little in tactical success, it was a massive loss of face for the Japanese military, which had assured the Emperor that Japan was untouchable.

Since the Japanese military was unaware the US Navy had worked out how to launch B-25 bombers from aircraft carriers, it assumed the launch must have come from the US territory of Midway. Thus, the Imperial Japanese Navy set about plans to attack Midway. With the US in possession of Japan’s naval codes, that meant the US was prepared for Japan’s assault on the islands.

This is the difference between tactics and strategy. (Something sovereign citizen wingnuts will never grasp, along with a bunch of armchair warriors.) By using a losing tactic (attacking Tokyo with B-25’s knowing they’d do little damage), the Navy set up a strategic victory by drawing Japan into a trap (the Battle of Midway).