In "Downfall:The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire," a 1999 book by Richard Frank, it's shown that the Imperial Japanese Air Force had amassed more than 10,000 aircraft, which were projected to destroy one-third of the invasion force before the landings in Kyushu. ... With most of the military, as well as 40% of the arms and munitions in Kyushu preparing for the first amphibious assault, the members of the Patriotic Citizens Fighting Corps were armed with muskets, longbows, even with sharpened bamboo spears. What this sea of civilians lacked besides training were arms and even unifo...

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In "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire," a 1999 book by Richard Frank, it's shown that the Imperial Japanese Air Force had amassed more than 10,000 aircraft, which were projected to destroy one-third of the invasion force before the landings in Kyushu. ... " (Davis, 1987) With most of the military, as well as 40% of the arms and munitions in Kyushu preparing for the first amphibious assault, the members of the Patriotic Citizens Fighting Corps were armed with muskets, longbows, even with sharpened bamboo spears. What this sea of civilians lacked besides training were ...

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In his farewell address, outgoing President George Washington famously stated that, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. ... In his book, "In Defense of the Bush Doctrine,"" Robert Kaufman discusses how the founders of the United States embraced an isolationist strategy in the years 1776-1830. ... In his book, Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black summarizes the thinking of Washington and the United States when he writes, "in the sage beginning of what would become a ...

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Interestingly the first scholarly mention of the term American exceptionalism actually comes from a man called Max Lerner in his book titled "America as a Civilization".13 He mentions that one of the main institutions that is singled out as the root of American exceptionalism, is the constitution. ... In George Washington's farewell address he said that the Constitution "has a just claim to [our] confidence and respect," because it is "the offspring of our choice, uninfluenced and unawed, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers uniting security wit...

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