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Island-Hopping: The Strategy That Chose Which Japanese Soldiers Would Die Forgotten
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The island-hopping strategy of 1942-1945 is often described as brilliant military economy. What it actually meant, in practice, was selecting certain Japanese garrisons to be bypassed and left to starve rather than fought. The 100,000 troops on Rabaul never surrendered. They simply waited, isolated, as the war moved past them. The strategic calculus was rational. The human cost, on both sides of that calculus, was not abstract.
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