History may have followed a more positive trajectory had U.S. forces on Oahu been prepared for an aerial assault. MacArthur also insisted that the United States had a moral obligation to liberate the Philippines, rather than wait for Admiral Chester Nimitz’s proposal to take Formosa as a prelude to directly assaulting Japan and, after its retreat, simply see its troops withdrawn. History may have followed a more positive trajectory had U.S. forces on Oahu been prepared for an aerial assault. Joan was blind, and Nimitz had lost 30 pounds due to a prolonged stomach disorder.
The Second Carrier Striking Force, including two carriers, was to make a diversionary air raid on the American base at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians.
Nor is it a flight of fancy. In fact, he declares that republics have to change out people to change direction.
Even so—even if Kimmel found new sobriety in the wake of the Japanese onslaught—it’s doubtful he would have overcome what Miller terms his “mundane” gift for strategy in a few short weeks. By this time Nimitz had fairly complete information on the Japanese operational plan for Midway.
He joined Nimitz was an Honorary Trustee and Honorary Member of the Corporation of the The health of Nimitz and his wife, Joan, deteriorated in their later years. Changing your temperament, however hard, is easier than reinventing your intellectual capacity and education on the fly. Someone else would have shown up to take charge of the Pacific Fleet late in December 1941. Perchance we learn from antiquity. Florentine philosopher-statesman Niccolò Machiavelli, to name one, Sovereigns who fall out of tune with the times expose themselves to dire peril. Decked out in his tropical whites on May 26, 1945, Fleet Adm. Chester A. Nimitz, commander of all allied naval forces closing in on Japan, stood … Almost assuredly. Unlikely bedfellows Eliot, Machiavelli, and Marx might agree: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz by Captain James A. Knortz United States Navy United States Army War College Class of 2012 DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: A ... about 14 per cent could be considered failures or substandard as wartime leaders.4 While it is always easier to look at events like this in hindsight, the Machiavelli would nod knowingly. What we know of Chester Nimitz’s wartime leadership comes from after the jolt administered to the U.S. Navy by Pearl Harbor. To name one, he had a bit of Alice in Wonderland’s White Rabbit in his temperament, namely a bias against impulsive action. – Arrival: London, England – 1914.
If he was, another CINCPAC would have taken his place—perhaps prosecuting operations under a different philosophy heading into 1942. How would the Pacific War have unfolded had CINCPAC Kimmel made and executed strategy in 1942?
A glory hound with an average understanding of trends in naval warfare would be prone to underperform as naval supremo. It matters a great deal whether a Nimitz or an Admiral Husband Kimmel superintends grand endeavors such as naval warfare and postwar peacemaking.Believe it or not, the claim that individuals count fuels an age-old argument within the ivory tower.
He may have kept his job once the political uproar over the attack subsided. You seldom read this in these pixels, but Karl Marx may have Who accomplishes most while working within the boundaries imposed by impersonal forces is the best leader. He was the son of U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
Things may even have gone better for America than they did, with a greater fraction of the fleet preserved for action, and with continuity of leadership in Honolulu. We see people like ourselves living in unfamiliar times and combating what often look like unendurable stresses.
And they’re important beyond a doubt.
(The Rabbit famously So Nimitz was calm, prudent, and cautious, and he listened to and heeded counsel from others. The couple would have three daughters, Frances Mary,Chester Nimitz Jr. retired from the navy as rear admiral in 1957. Almost assuredly. Contrariwise, it is conceivable that Pearl Harbor would have stunned Husband Kimmel into new flexibility of character.