Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

Lecture begins

0:00

The code of the samurai

6:58

Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism

10:45

Bushido as bad strategy

16:52

Military theorists

23:34

Strategic sins of omission

33:42

Crippled logistics

38:10

the Kwantung Army

40:58

Inter-service communication

43:31

Shattering Japanese morale

51:15

Q&A begins

57:35

Unusual brutality of WWII

1:05:02

Embargo caused the war

1:11:30

The liberation of China

1:16:48

Could US have prevented war?

1:22:02

Counterfactuals in history

1:25:30

Japanese optimism

1:27:46

Tech change and social change

1:30:46

Hamming questions

1:38:22

Do sanctions work?

1:44:31

Backloaded mass death

1:50:07

demilitarizing Japan

1:54:09

Post-war alliances

1:57:30

Inter-service rivalry

2:03:46