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...victory was a triumph for the concept of the complete integration of the three dimensions of war-ground, sea and air. By a thorough use of each arm in conjunction with the corresponding utilization of the other two, the enemy was reduced to . . . helplessness. By largely avoiding methods involving the separate use of the services . . . our combined power forced the surrender with relative life loss probably unparalleled in any campaigns in history...
...Communists insisted on keeping control-through governors and mayors-of vital areas, mostly in North China. Chiang flatly rejected this concept of a dynamic, hostile state-within-a-state...
Things were probably not so bad as they seemed. It was the surprisingly quick surrender, rather than the U.S. concept of occupation, which led to the confusion and unease last week. The lack of completed plans and readied staffs to arrange the surrender and begin the actual occupation had nothing to do with the basic theory that conquered Japan should be ruled through its abjectly subordinated Emperor. In fact, having once chosen to deal with and through the Emperor, the occupiers could only hope & pray that he would be able to take and hold effective control until they could land...
...Champ") Twining (TIME, Aug. 6). In turn, LeMay was taking a new assignment: the orders had made him chief of staff of the U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces. In that executive capacity, just when the B-29s were getting a new atomic weapon which might change the whole concept of war, he would run the B-29 show under the overall supervision of the U.S.'s top strategic airman, wise, imperturbable General Carl Spaatz. In Spaatz's command were both Twining's Twentieth and Lieut. General "Jimmy" Doolittle's Okinawa-based Eighth Air Force...
Having seized upon the carrier striking-force concept, the Japanese became infatuated with it, extended it until they were imprisoned within their own task-force psychology.* The method worked well in the southern seas, when any Jap task force was certain to be stronger than any Allied task force. It failed partially in the Coral Sea (where the Japanese first lost a carrier, the Shoho); it failed utterly at Midway...