He did get a bit out of hand in the end, his ego got to big.

I disagree on Nimitz Island hopping strategy. That would have taken years, the Japanese soldiers would not surrender and could survive on a handful of rice. Even if we did force them to surrender which I doubt it would have been like Germany after WW1. IE the soldiers were not defeated the government stabbed them in the back. The Japanese army thought they were all that and then some, especially after routing the British and Russians. The only way to fix that was MacArthur's strategy, pound the heck out of them.

The only way to defeat a country is to break its military and break its will to fight. The only way to do this at the time was boots on the ground. You have to engage and kill there soldiers, bomb there cities, sink there ships, and destroy there air force.

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