Brotherhood in War | Second World War
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After examining the second World War for a considerable length of time, I can only say I have acquired a superficial understanding of the time 1939-1945. Now, I have graduated to the time, where the real power was perception of power, whether if the power was really there or not did not hold any good. Nations was allegedly trying to not fight wars, but annihilate human race as a species by nuclear war. Yes, I'm talking about the cold War between United States and Soviet Union. And, precisely the missile crisis, which almost brought humankind to end and how it was evaded.
The ethical question of United States nuclear bombing Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) continues to remain debatable until now, even though 76 years have passed since the human catastrophe on 6th and 9th August 1945. According to historical accounts, the pressure on the Americans to make this decision was multifold.
The perception of super power between US and USSR was already raging with the latter declaring part of the captured Nazi Germany as East and Americans' as West Germany. The "Cold War" had already begun. Furthermore, Russians need to capture Japan and make the world known that they have put an end to the Second World War. Thus, becoming the world's super power.
Japan was virtually defeated by allies and still persevering by preparing every man, woman and child left to fight the allies till the last man standing even with sticks and stones. A guerrilla warfare was anticipated with very high casualties on both sides.
Americans were planning on carrying out an amphibious invasion of Japan in a way similar to how Nazi occupied Europe was captured and liberated.
Americans after realising the ambush created by Japan needed to end the war immediately by making Japan surrender unconditionally. By doing so, Russians would realise that the United States were more competent than Russia. Most importantly, Americans didn't want another territory to be shared with Russians for their contribution in the war.
President Roosevelt had to make not only one of the toughest but arguably morally wrong decisions ever made by a US President. The decision was made out of necessity.
It was a go. What happened next is history.
76 years ago today, on December 7, 1941, Japan, which was reportedly agitated by American involvement in trade, assaulted Pearl Harbor. 20 American naval vessels and more than 300 airplanes were destroyed, about 2400 died and 1000 wounded. Consequently, with Adolf Hitler's third Reich declaring war on the United States, America officially entered into the world war II, fighting Germans in the Europe and Japanese in the Pacific.
"To stay secret we are going to have to become more open."
How does it feel like if you actually get to meet or speak to the real life head of the British Secret Service known by the code name "C"? Does it remind you of " M" of the James Bond universe? Absolutely, I'm talking about them. Thanks to the "The Economist Asks" podcast of "The Economist", I happened to listen to the " C" talking about clandestine operations carried out by the United Kingdom since the second world war to cold war and the current global threats not only the UK but the world face.
The very existence of MI6 Or SIS was denied, not made public or remained anonymous until 1994, a year before the release of the revival of the James Bond franchise "Golden Eye" (1995). The fact that my grandfather "BhavaThevar", served the British Indian Army and " Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose's", "Indian National Army", thereby having instilled the interests in military secret services especially through the films of Ian Fleming's James Bond in my father and his grandsons, i'm always fascinated by knowing about military and their intelligence services of nations, but from the comfort of being a civilian and most importantly a patriot of homeland India.
https://www.sis.gov.uk/about-us.html
January 29, 2022:
"The strong is strongest when alone."
Finally, I'm in the possession of something profound, which not only divided humans in the 19th century but altered the course of mankind irrevocably. This post is apolitical. I do not subscribe to national socialism nor do I propagate its ideology, but I'm sharing it for educational and research purposes.
This organization was not declassified until 1992. When nations couldn't even imagine of observation from the space, they had satellites seeing, photographing and listening to people of interests. As a part of my endeavor to direct James Bond, I try to keep myself abreast of the world of espionage. Thus, I happened to listen to this podcast, while I was doing something mediocre in the physical reality you and I exist, but I was processing this information in the mental reality of my own, where the place for the ordinary is forbidden.
While I was doing something mediocre in the physical reality you exist, I was processing something exceptional about Indian military aviation from a podcast "The Blue Skies Podcast" about veteran Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Raghu Nambiar, and why did India choose fighter Jet Mirage 2000? , in the mental reality of my own, where the place for ordinary is nonexistent.
Reportedly, in the early 1980s, Pakistanis had inducted a tested, tried and proven American's fighter jet F16 into their fleet, which apparently not only posed a significant threat but dwarfed Indian Air Force. As a counter measure, Indians acquired French made Mirage 2000, a multi role jet, which proved its mettle, in almost every mission against adversaries surrounding India.
#JaiHind #IndiaIndependenceDay
Even though, the #military is in my blood, for some reasons I couldn't realise my aspiration of becoming a soldier in the reality I exist. Perhaps, in the next incarnation I would.
My grandfather #BhavaThevar served in the Indian army under the British rule during the second World War, subsequently became a rebel and joined #Nethaji's Indian National Army (#INA) because of Nethaji's camaraderie with #Pasumpon_Muthuramalinga_Thevar. Having heard his stories of both the allied and axis forces, the idea of becoming a soldier or examining the second World War reinforced with #Steven_Spielberg's "#Saving_Private_Ryan" in 1999, which my father took me and my brother to a theatre in Madurai Sri Mappillai Vinayagar .
Therefore, anything to do with military fascinates me and thus I became a military historian aspirant.
There is enough content for the military of the western powers, especially Americans and British, but almost none of the inside view of Indian Army until the internet became ubiquitous. Now, I have to thank Mr #PR_Ganapathy, who is an aviator himself, and striving towards bringing the stories of Indian Military Aviation through his podcast "#Blue_Skies_Podcast", which has been quenching my thirst for military action.
#BT
http://mindofbt.blogspot.com/2021/09/how-do-i-exist-and-why.html
http://mindofbt.blogspot.com/2020/10/brotherhood-in-war-second-world-war.html
My interest in studying the Nazi Germans began with their uniforms, which sort of fascinated me. It all began in the mid 80s, when my father took my brother and me to "Madurai Mappillai Vinayagar" theatre for Steven Spielberg's "Raiders Of The Lost Ark". That's was the very first time I was introduced to the notion of Nazi ideology and their uniforms. It got my attention. Since then, I have been studying them especially the division which wore black colored uniforms - "Waffen SS". One of the main designers/brand of the Nazi uniform was " Hugo Boss". However, it appears that their involvement was not voluntary.
" Waffen - SS", kind of began as a private military unit of Nazi Germany. Young men in the 1930 were not only given the regular military training but went through exclusive training in Nazi ideology purpose built facility. After several assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler, he lost belief in his army and held SS as his personal bodyguard.
While I was doing something mediocre for my livelihood in the reality you exist, I was listening to something profound in my reality - a podcast on "Waffen SS" by WW2 podcast hosted by Angus Wallace on the book "Hitler's Armed SS: The Waffen-SS at War, 1939–1945", authored by Anthony Tucker-Jones.
This post is apolitical and it's shared for examination and historical purposes and no ideology is embraced.
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Sivan was possibly an allied or axis soldier in his previous incarnation:
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