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Worldview: Sarah Paine on Japanese culture and strategy in World War 2

Sarah Paine is a professor of History and Grand Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. This excellent lecture sheds a lot of light on strategy in the Pacific in WW2, and contains great illustrations of how worldview affects decision making and strategy.

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See also:

One Hundred Million Souls for the Emperor: Paul Fussell on Experience and Perspective
Emperor of Ruins (Lovecraftian anthropology; Kremlin psychodrama)
Recommendation: Paul Fussell (and Shakespeare) on Real War
Thucydides: Innovation and Rapid Iteration vs Conservativism in the Peloponnesian War
James Holland on strategy, operations and tactics
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