It has been nearly 70 years since the smoke of the Battle of Midway dissipated, and people have been discussing the reasons for the defeat of the Japanese navy.
The first is that the Japanese army lost the intelligence war. The Japanese code was deciphered by the US side, and the battle plan was completely exposed, turning it into a game of poker. The second is that the Japanese army is too scattered, and the secondary direction uses the army to make its own military useless. Compared with the concentrated US military, the original absolute advantage is completely lost. Once again, it was the misuse of Japanese personnel. Chuichi Nagumo was too conservative and cautious. He had already made a serious mistake in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
However, from a higher level analysis, the many enlightenments this war has given us are even more profound.
First of all, there is a generational difference in the concepts of the two sides. At that time, Japan still followed the concept of maneuvering in the Middle Ages, while the United States followed the concept of the rule of law in modern society.
As far as the rules of war are concerned, the Hague Convention of 1907 provides that "the contracting states recognize that hostilities shall not begin with each other unless there is a prior and unmistakable warning. The warning shall be in the form of a reasoned declaration of war or An ultimatum for a conditional declaration of war." Japan's sudden attack on other countries without declaring war is a serious violation of international law, which is an illegal and criminal act in the modern international community. Japan violated the laws of war, lost its morality, and lost the support of the vast majority of normal countries in the world, becoming an increasingly isolated country. This intergenerational gap in the concept of the country is doomed to Japan's defeat in the war.
Second, there is a generational difference in the level of science and technology between the two sides. The high-generation side can completely defeat the other party by virtue of its high-tech advantages, while the low-generation side has no chance of winning, just like the Inca Empire in the primitive tribe era used wooden sticks and stones to fight against the Spanish colonists with muskets. This kind of war The result is no suspense.
At the beginning of the war, the technological gap between Japan and the United States was not large, but once the strong scientific research strength and industrial production potential of the United States are opened, the gap between the two sides will become larger and larger. During the Battle of Midway in the early days of the war, the U.S. side had already been equipped with a radar system for pre-war reconnaissance, and the Japanese side had to rely on pilots to observe with the naked eye. Later, after the United States thoroughly studied a captured Japanese Zero fighter, with its own strong military scientific research capabilities, it quickly developed "F6F" and "F4U", and gained air supremacy in one fell swoop. The subsequent Japanese fighters are like target turkeys. .
War is a competition of national strength, covering national system, war mobilization ability, human resources, production and scientific research level. The intergenerational gap between Japan and the United States in the above two aspects means a huge gap in national strength between the two sides. The flesh and blood of Bushido and Kamikaze are no match for the torrent of steel.
The Japanese navy won the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese naval battle and the Japanese-Russian naval battle of Tsushima. Although the opponents were all empires with huge territory and population, the Manchu Qing Dynasty under the rule of the faint-hearted old woman and the absolutely autocratic Tsarist Russia were old-fashioned dynasties that were dying of decay. In the face of new opponents, Japan wants to create another miracle of national fortune with small efforts, that is a fool's dream. The results of international games in modern society can be obtained by mathematical calculations, which is science.
The ancients said: If the country is small but not humble, who has little power but is not afraid of the strong, who is rude and insults big neighbors, who is greedy and makes poor friends, he will perish.
American President Roosevelt said: "The foundations of civilized society are being seriously threatened. We cannot ensure that we are safe from the catastrophic effects of war and the dangers involved. America will not flee."
At the end of the film, Vice Admiral Halsey, commander of the US aircraft carrier task force, said, "We won with dignity!"
The singers in the film sing: It's all or nothing, half of the love is not attractive to me, if you can't bow down at my feet, then I'd rather not have it.
Who said no!
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