I have just concluded a major update to my ongoing “Timeline to
War.” This includes references from
the book “The Chief Culprit,” by Viktor Suvorov. I have written a high level overview of the book
here. I now feel free to go back to the book and
explore it in further detail.
I have also just finished another fascinating book, “The
Imperial Cruise.” It is about a trip to
Asia in 1905 made by Taft on behalf of Teddy Roosevelt. The purpose of the trip was to agree with
Japan regarding Japan’s taking on the White Man’s burden (no, really!) in much
of Asia. It was, of course,
unconstitutional; it also paved the way for Japanese atrocities in Asia throughout
the first half of the century.
Further, the book offers an overview of US atrocities in the
Philippines and other such foreign adventures of the time. I will write about this book in the near
future.
BM,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up on "The Imperial Cruise" - just starting reading it, thanks to the miracle that the internet is.
I've also learnt much from your analysis of WWII had many fathers.
One observation I make is that economic and human strife often is the result of some natural calamity - yet none of the published accounts of economic history make mention of this extra cause; always it's some one or other's fault. Interesting. I picked it up in "The Imperial Cruise" on the arrival of Cook to Hawaii. If this account is accurate then the British should also have caused a similar fate among the Australian aboriginals, so I wonder if the Hawaiian event might have more to do with a non-human cause of the diseases that afflicted them after Cook left. Those times were still in the throes of the Little Ice Age.
Thank you for the comment.
DeleteYou make an interesting point about the Americans, Hawaiians, and disease - a topic I do not understand very well, but a point worth considering.