Peter G. Tsouras - Rising Sun Victorious: An Alternate History of the Pacific War

RISING SUN VICTORIOUS
Copyright 1995 by Peter Tsouras

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Contents

The Second Russo-Japanese War
Peter G. Tsouras

The Plan Orange Disaster
Wade G. Dudley

Irredeemable Defeat
Frank R. Shirer

The Lost Advantage
James R. Arnold

The Battles of Midway and California
Forrest R. Lindsey

The Japanese Invasion of Australia
John H. Gill

The Conquest of India
David C. Isby

The Broken Shoestring
John D. Burtt

Halsey and Kurita at Leyte Gulf
Christopher J. Anderson

The Kamikaze and the Invasion of Kyushu
D. M. Giangreco

Maps

All maps by John Richards, except maps 9 and 10 by John H. Gill, and map 15 (CINCPAC).

Contributors

CHRISTOPHER J. ANDERSON is a lifelong student of World War II and the associate editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and World War II magazine. He is the author of several volumes in Greenhill Books' series GI.: A Photographic History of the American Soldier and is working on a history of the 327/401st Glider Regiment.

JAMES R. ARNOLD is a professional writer who specializes in military history. He has published over twenty books roughly divided into three major topic areas: the Napoleonic era; the American Civil War; and the modern period. His two most recent books are a Napoleonic campaign study, Marengo and Hohenlinden: Napoleon's Rise to Power and Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanche's, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier. He has also contributed numerous essays to military journals, including the British Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research and the American journals Army History, Army Magazine, and Navy History. His chapter in this book reflects his interest in the influence of intelligence and espionage upon military events.

JOHN D. BURTT is the editor of Paper Wars Magazine, an independent review journal devoted to war games. In his day job persona he is an advisory nuclear engineer consulting for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. However, his real love is military history. A former marine sergeant and a veteran of Vietnam, he holds a master's degree in military history and is pursuing a Ph.D. in the same field. He has written for Command Magazine, Strategy & Tactics, and The Wargamer, and was the original editor of C ounter Attack magazine.

WADE G. DUDLEY returned to academia after almost two decades with Procter & Gamble to earn a master's degree in maritime history and nautical archaeology from East Carolina University in 1997 and a doctorate in history from the University of Alabama in 1999. He contributed Drake at Cadiz to Sarpedon's Great Raids in History, while a monograph, A Comparative Evaluation of Blockades in the Late Age of Sail, and a book, Without Some Risk: A Reassessment of the British Blockade of the United States, 1812-1815, are due to be published shortly. He is employed as a visiting assistant professor of history at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and is currently working on a history of naval blockades and a novel about privateers during the War of 1812.

D. M. GIANGRECO is an editor for the U.S. Army's professional journal, Military Review. He has lectured widely on U.S. national security matters and has written six books on military and political subjects, including Dear Harry... Truman's Mailroom, 1945-1953: The Truman Administration Through Correspondence with Everyday Americans and War in Korea. He has also written articles for many U.S. and international publications, including Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasion of Japan: 1945-1946 and The Truth About Kamikazes, and on such topics as the Falkland Islands' sovereignty question, decentralization of the Soviet air force command and control structure, Persian Gulf pipeline construction, and the human interface with rapidly changing technologies.

JOHN H. GILL is the author of With Eagles to Glory: Napoleon and His German Allies in the 1809 Campaign and the editor of A Soldier for Napoleon, providing commentary on the letters and diaries of a Bavarian infantry lieutenant during the Napoleonic Wars. In addition to numerous articles and papers on Napoleonic military affairs and a chapter in The Peninsular War, he has contributed chapters to two other alternate history collections, The Hitler Options and The Napoleon Options. He has a B.A. in history and German and an M.A. in international relations. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, he is assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency as Assistant Defense Intelligence Officer for South Asia.

DAVID C. ISBY is a Washington-based attorney and national security consultant and adjunct professor at American Military University. He has a B.A. in history and a J.D. in international law. A former editor of Strategy & Tactics magazine, he has also served as a congressional staff member. He has designed nineteen conflict simulations and been awarded two Charles Roberts awards for excellence in this field. He has written or edited twenty books, including several dealing with World War II: G.I. Victory, The Luftwaffe Fighter Force: The View from the Cockpit, and Fighting the Invasion: The German Army at D-Day.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL FORREST R. LINDSEY, USMC (Ret.) served nearly thirty years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including time in combat in Vietnam. His assignments included nuclear weapons testing with the Defense Nuclear Agency, service as a United Nations truce supervisor in Egypt, and as an arms control treaty inspection team leader in the former Soviet Union. His artillery duties included battalion operations officer, regimental logistics officer, and commanding officer of the 5th Battalion, 11th Marines. Upon retirement from active duty in 1996, he continued working with the Marine Corps as senior engineer for the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, responsible for weapons experimentation and precision targeting. He has written several articles on professional military issues in the Marine Corps Gazette. He has a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering technology and is pursuing a master's degree in business administration.

FRANK R. SHIRER is a historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., specializing in oral history, World War II, and the Soviet military. An army veteran with twenty years enlisted and commissioned service in the U.S. Army, he has served in Field Artillery as a fire direction specialist and forward observer, and received a direct commission in Military Intelligence, where he served as an armored cavalry squadron S-2 and 3rd Armored Division Artillery S-2. He has also served on the DCSINT staff at the Pentagon, as a Soviet analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and as an order of battle analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center. Since retiring in 1994 he has worked for the U.S. Army Gulf War Declassification Project and the U.S. Army Declassification Activity, and has been with the CMH since 1995. He has assisted in the research for several works of military history.

PETER G. TSOURAS is a senior intelligence analyst at the U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center's Washington office. He has served in the army as an armor officer in the 1st Bn/64th Armor Regiment in Germany and subsequently in intelligence and Adjutant Generals Corps assignments. He retired from the Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel after serving as a civil affairs officer. His assignments have taken him to Somalia, Russia, Ukraine, and Japan. He is the author or editor of twenty books on international military themes, military history, and alternate history, including Disaster at D-Day, Gettysburg: An Alternate History, The Great Patriotic War, The Anvil of War, Fighting in Hell, and The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations.