The Mediterranean era ended with the discovery of the Americas; The Atlantic Age was at the peak of development and was bound to soon exhaust the resources it controlled; Only the Pacific Age, destined to be the greatest of the two, is only dawning. (Epigraph - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903)

Remember, it's "President Theodore Roosevelt," not "President Franklin D. Roosevelt." The later President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt.

This is American-style democracy and freedom: "President Roosevelt Sr. and President Roosevelt Jr.", "President Kennedy Sr. and President Kennedy Jr.", "President Bush Sr. and President Bush Jr.", and so on.

Many people ignorantly ridicule the old Kim family on the Korean Peninsula, is the United States really national? Freedom? It's just pure fart nonsense.

The U.S. regime is controlled by the U.S. dollar. Historically, there have been so many big families (chaebols) that control the Democratic Party and the Republican Party respectively, and then take turns to sit in the village.

Although the maximum number of consecutive terms cannot exceed four terms, this agreement can be avoided by adopting the method of "Lao Tzu comes down to the son, and the husband comes down to the wife".

Gossip has been expressed, and the book is back to business.

The U.S. government's policy toward Asia, especially China, has undergone two extreme changes. This change was the early "economic control of China", and the later "military support of puppet control of China".

After President Howard Taft replaced "President Roosevelt Sr." in office, his China policy was "to establish American economic hegemony in Chinese mainland as part of the fierce competition for the Chinese empire." ”

Much to the frustration of Taft's government, Wall Street's big chaebols did not listen to him and preferred to invest in Tokyo, thus prompting the Japanese devils to make further efforts to expand into Chinese mainland, thus failing his national policy of "dollar occupation of the Chinese empire".

At a time when Americans were confused about "how to control the vast and decaying Chinese Empire", a cripple was born, and he wrote a book called "The Ignorant Warrior", which caused shock throughout the United States and even Europe. This person is Homer Lee, because the English is HomerLea, so it is also translated as Li Homo.

The book caused an uproar in 1909 because it predicted the fall of the British Empire and the outbreak of a war between the United States and Japan for control of the Pacific.

He warned all Americans that in the near future there would be a new "Yellow Peril" scare on the West Coast.

For this reason, Li Homo's strategic assessment of the Philippines is: "Japan's hegemony in Asia is only a temporary phenomenon, and it is the people who control the Philippines who will defeat Japan in the end." ”

Before the outbreak of World War II, this assessment was the basis of the US military strategy in the Pacific, and it was also the "theoretical basis" for the Americans to try to defeat the Spanish colonialists and then steal the Philippines.

In order to realize the strategic policy of "first controlling the Philippines and then breaking Japan's grasp of the Chinese Empire," the US Army and Navy planners secretly formulated the "Orange Operation Plan" (orange is the code name for Japan, red is the code name for Britain, and black is the code name for Germany) in 1911.

The starting point of the plan was to assume that in the event of a Japanese attack, the troops stationed in the Philippines would be able to hold out until the fleet rushed to the rescue. The fleet will fight its way out of the Pacific Ocean and rush to the east to fight the Japanese.

However, this plan had a fatal flaw from the day it was conceived: that is, after the combat fleet was dispatched from the bases on the west coast, it would take at least a few weeks, maybe months, to create a "North Pacific passage across the Pacific Ocean to reinforce the Philippines," and the Japanese might have taken control of the Philippines during this time.

To this end, the U.S. Admiralty Department Ministerial Committee, beginning in 1911, hoped to persuade Congress to agree to "a plan for 48 battleships from 1903 to 1920." ”

The stingy politicians of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in the United States are opposed to the establishment of such a "huge navy" and consider it a waste, so they limit the construction of only one new battleship every year.

However, with the continuous growth of the German naval power, the situation in Europe has changed dramatically, and it has become another headache for the American admirals.

It was at this time that Democratic idealist Woodrow Wilson entered the White House and led to the complete abortion of the "48 battleship project." He not only ordered the cessation of U.S. shipbuilding, but also called on Germany and Britain to stop the naval arms race, saying that it would gradually lead to war.

The final result was that the US Admiralty did not get the "48 battleships," and the "Combined Pacific Fleet" plan was finally lost, along with the "Orange Operation Plan."

At this juncture, another cripple of the United States was born, and that was "Franklin D. Roosevelt". "He took his uncle's gun and came to the White House to stand guard again!"

The young Congressman Roosevelt, in response to the call of the respected Admiral Mahan, drew up "a plan for the assembly of the combat fleet in the waters of the Pacific." ”

The crisis in the Pacific, and in particular the expansion of German submarine warfare across the Atlantic, finally convinced Congress that the United States must prepare for war and called for a navy that was "second to none."

As a result, the US Navy Department Committee opened its mouth widely, changed its original tone of "48 battleships," and drew up a plan to build 156 warships in order to "enable the United States to have the most powerful navy in the world within five years." ”

The great debate on the number of warships has not yet come to a conclusion, and an incident has occurred in Northeast China, and the "918 Incident" has broken out!

There are strong international calls for "severe sanctions against Japan" and the immediate imposition of an oil embargo.

President Hoover, who had just taken office, was determined to "uphold the basic moral norms of international life" when he ran for the presidency, but he feared that the imposition of sanctions would lead to war and thus be detrimental to the United States.

In the President's view, the imposition of an embargo on oil and trade with Japan is like "pricking a tiger with a needle." He feared that his secretary of state, Stimson, was "more of a warrior than a diplomat."

Hoover did not impose sanctions on Japan, nor was he willing to support the British and French alliances to put pressure on the Japanese invaders, and encouraged American oil companies to "cooperate with Japan on a conditional basis."

This is the "international moral norm" of the United States -- betraying others is the law of diplomacy, and the principle is not to harm the interests of the United States!

After Franklin D. Roosevelt became president, the international situation deteriorated. Then Hitler's mustache fought in Europe, and the US defense policy once again came to a crossroads.

The US Army and Navy chiefs of staff had to make a choice: whether to implement the Atlantic Defense Plan or the Pacific Defense Plan.

After repeated quarrels, the US War Department and the Admiralty agreed on them: the immediate threat came not from Japan, but from the Axis powers. In order to protect Germany's growing interests in South America, the danger of the Axis powers moving south along the western Atlantic was imminent.

The report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously called on the president to concentrate naval forces in the Atlantic and Caribbean. This necessitated some defensive posture in the Pacific to hold Hawaii - at the cost of abandoning the Philippines for a certain distance, should the Japanese attack the islands.

In particular, the memorandum reminded the president that "do not be tempted by politics to protect the archipelago, because that would be contrary to a wise assessment of American interests."

This far-reaching conclusion completely changed the grand strategy of the United States for half a century, and President Roosevelt did not hesitate to approve this plan.

For he had concluded: "Nazi Germany poses a much greater threat to American interests in Europe and North America than Japan poses." ”

This dramatic shift in strategic objectives is reflected in the newly formulated "Rainbow Operation Plan." Hence the name because, unlike today's unrealistic, traditional monochrome directives, they are designed to deal with united enemies and potential allies.

"Rainbow No. 1": The purpose is "our country independently controls the Americas, and no one else is allowed to touch it". Therefore, it is limited to "hemispheric defense" to prevent "acts contrary to the letter and spirit of the Monroe Doctrine" from spreading to the middle of the Atlantic and as far away as the Pacific regions such as Hawaii, Wake Island and Samoa, and not to defend the Philippine Islands and Guam.

Rainbow 2: Imagine Britain and France at war with the Axis powers, in which the United States "will not engage in the war to the maximum extent possible in Europe" but will assume "the responsibility of safeguarding the interests of the democracies in the Pacific and destroying the forces of the enemy."

"Rainbow 3" heralded the implementation of the original "Orange Operation Plan" -- the necessity of "controlling the western Pacific Ocean" when sending a fleet to recover Africa.

"Rainbow 4": Imagine that the US armed forces, forced by a real threat, have to concentrate their forces on fighting an Atlantic war and its inevitable outcome;

"Rainbow 5": As soon as there are some signs of international formation (favorable to American strategy), it is envisaged that they will unite with Britain and France and play a major role in the "decisive battle against Germany".

The British expeditionary force retreated from Dunkirk, and the German armored forces approached the French capital. Roosevelt capitalized on the growing panic of Americans and demanded that members of Congress vote on an $1.1 billion allocation to the U.S. Army to "reconsider the issue of national defense." ”

In order to deal with the threat of Italy entering the war, stabbing France in the back, Germany could take control of the Atlantic coast, and in order to deal with this threat, the planners of the Joint Chiefs of Staff began to work on the detailed preparations for the "Rainbow 5" strategy.

The core of the "Rainbow 5 Strategic Plan" is "Europe first, taking into account the Pacific", and it has been recognized as the national strategy of the United States after the United States entered the war.

For this reason, the US Navy began to transfer part of its fleet from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean before the war, and took over the escort mission of the British Army in the western Atlantic.

Bai Shujie is a person from the past and knows well the despicable tricks of the US government.

The most crucial reason why the Americans will suffer a big loss at Midway is that more than half of the strength of the US Navy is in the Atlantic.

The little devil also knew this, so Yamamoto made up his mind to attack Pearl Harbor. In this way, if the Americans want to transfer back the fleet in the Atlantic, it will take three months to half a year at the earliest.

Because Bai Shujie knew that the memorandum specifically reminded the president: "Don't be tempted by politics to protect that archipelago, because that would be contrary to a wise assessment of U.S. interests."

That's why Bai Shujie formulated a "robbery plan" that "took the chestnut from the fire" and put it into practice, because the loss of the Philippine Islands was within the limits that the American devils could bear.

In this way, MacArthur, the "emperor" of the Philippines, is like eating two flies, which naturally need to burst out!

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.