Colonel Peter Mansoor, U.S. Army (retired), General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History at The Ohio State University and authors of Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines, joins the show to discuss the largest campaign of the Pacific War, the liberation of the Philippines. 

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    •      01:08 Introduction

    •      01:30 Why West Point?

    •      06:11 Petraeus   

    •      09:55 A huge scale 

    •      11:25 War Plan Orange       

    •      16:25 Inevitable     

    •      20:07 The guerrilla war

    •      26:53 Mindanao & Luzon

    •      31:33 Leyte Gulf    

    •      37:52 A do or die campaign 

    •      40:04 Manila 

    •      44:34 Command responsibility 

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