Why Did Nimitz Skip Japan's Most Fortified Islands?

Описание: 100,000 Japanese troops. Five airfields. The most fortified base in the Pacific. And Admiral Chester Nimitz simply... drew a circle around it and walked away.

This is the story of island-hopping — one of the boldest strategic gambles in military history. Instead of storming every Japanese stronghold across the Pacific, Nimitz chose to bypass them entirely, cutting them off from supply lines and leaving them to wither while American forces leapfrogged toward Tokyo.

In this video, we break down:
► Why a direct assault on Japan's island chain could have cost 500,000 American lives
► The bitter feud between Nimitz and MacArthur that nearly derailed the entire strategy
► How Guadalcanal became the brutal test case that proved the plan worked
► Why Rabaul — with 100,000 troops inside — surrendered without a single American soldier fighting for it
► The military lesson that still shapes how wars are fought today

From the turning point at Midway to B-29s flying over Japanese cities, this is the full story of how restraint became America's most powerful weapon in the Pacific.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 — The fortress America refused to attack
0:30 — The Pacific crisis of 1942
3:30 — Island-hopping: the plan, the fights, the politics
8:00 — Guadalcanal: the strategy's brutal proving ground
13:00 — Aftermath: what the numbers revealed
16:30 — The real lesson of the Pacific War

📌 Sources & Further Reading:
• National WWII Museum — nationalww2museum.org
• Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in WWII
• E.B. Potter, Nimitz (Naval Institute Press)
• Naval History Magazine

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