argumate:

kontextmaschine:

starting to realize the importance that as far as the US Navy was concerned, WWII was a Pacific war against Japan

I thought that was obvious, what’s the importance?

It’s still narrativized in America as a continuation of European history, the point in fact where America took over that narrative, and the Pacific theater is extensively told in fact but the themes - of Japan and the US competing to take over from the European empires as regional hegemon, of the imperative to take a transcontinental forward basing position if only to prevent someone from taking it on you - are underexplored in terms of how they prefigured the world to come