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181123 Apollo Practicum: Invasion by Japan | Mark Johnston (Pearl Harbour…
181123 Apollo Practicum: Invasion by Japan | Mark Johnston
Evans
pural thinking
hedghogs v foxes
stream of time
different velocities of change
tech v society
singular event (but may occur within a repetitive structure (eg elections))
time is multilayered
counterfactuals
futures of the future
scenario variations
Parkin
US maintains neutrality
withdrawal from Manchuria
AS forces
cream in ME/Africa
10k RAAF in Europe
Pearl Harbour as a model
JA massacres of AS prisioners
JA - pin & encircle
primacy of air power in Pacific War
CVs are a projection of carriers
JA amphib all worked
Fleet
air
tech & personnel
tactically superior (initally)
very aggressive
JA merchant marine
60% mil, 40% for JA
too few oil tankers
both sides racist
Australia
Mackay: home defences
Sturdee
Department of Supply & Dev: industrial base for war
C'weath Aircraft Corp
enough for 8 Divs
inc trg & fighting
CMF 173k, 13k garrison, VDC 44k (guerrilla)
tanks
P38/Spitfire
6, 7th Div - A rating
9 Div - most decorated
inexperienced govt
Curtain relied on Sheddon/Sturdee
Curtain committed
Laverack
responses
Vichy
French armistice to French
removed French fleet
Nazis happy for French to deal with occupation
potential Petins
de Groot
Campbell
Bennett: left before singapore
Maquis
resistance
originally uncoord and sprung up in isolated
diverse politically
took of with labour consription
support with SOE
Communist stronger after Barossa
sabotage against railways, intel, escape serviceman, effected German morale
Gaullist
Britain financed
Slow recuitment
base in Equatorial Africa
de Gaulle directed France's effort
won over resistance
how relates to regular army
potentials
Anderson
Gullett
WW1 then politician
Hamer
later Premier Victoria
Libre France
500k Free French soldiers fighting
so in Overlord
challenges working with
resistance
Vichy France
concurrent in CH
take main cities
inc air raids
could not conquer
determined defence
winning by out lasting
ambush, sabotage, occassional major attack
so JA three Alls (kill all, burn all, take all)
US aid
drew JA intro jungle to attack