I decided to roll with Vanilla ICE today for my Monday Music.
The first time I heard of "Vanilla Ice" was in 1990 and we had gotten a group of new soldiers and they were talking about this thing called "rap" and vanilla ice was their spokesman for lack of a better word, Remember by this time I was 25 years old, been in the green machine 6 years and didn't have the same interest as the younger soldiers. That was the first time I really experienced "The generation gap". Seeing a couple of Italian kids trying to rap was hilarious.
I listened to the song..."like I had a choice", it was everywhere!!!. I did notice that the AFN station would start it off with "under Pressure" by Queen then follow it with vanilla Ice or they would reverse it. It made for an interesting combination. I have gotten used to the song, it don't grate on me like it used to. I do know that Vanilla Ice had a hard time with "Street Creed" in the rapper scene. Being a white guy in basically a black music world was hard and he didn't get the respect he should have gotten.
The later rapper Emimen in my mind had it a bit easier because Vanilla Ice was there before but in a way Eminem had it harder because of the controversy surrounding Vanilla Ice. Eminem really had "street Creed" in spades, where Vanilla was accused of manufacturing his. After Vanilla faded out of the mainstream music stream he had to reinvent himself to get away from the image. From what I have seen he has done a good job, he has a dedicated base to his music and he is "keeping it real".
"Ice Ice Baby" is a hip hop song written by American rapperVanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake based on the bassline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not initially receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit. Originally released on Vanilla Ice's 1989 debut album Hooked and later on his 1990 national debut To the Extreme, it is his most well known song. It has appeared in remixed form on Platinum Underground and Vanilla Ice Is Back! A live version appears on the album Extremely Live, while a rap rock version appears on the album Hard to Swallow, under the title "Too Cold". "Ice Ice Baby" was initially released as the B-side to Vanilla Ice's cover of "Play That Funky Music", but the single was not initially successful. When disc jockey David Morales played "Ice Ice Baby" instead, it began to gain success. "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, thus helping the song diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience. The song came fifth in VH1 and Blender's 2004 list of the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever."
Robert Van Winkle, better known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, wrote "Ice Ice Baby" in 1983 at the age of 16, basing its lyrics upon his experiences in South Florida. The lyrics describe a shooting and Van Winkle's rhyming skills. The chorus of "Ice Ice Baby" originates from the signature chant of the national African American fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. Of the song's lyrics, Van Winkle states that "If you released 'Ice Ice Baby' today, it would fit in today's lyrical respect among peers, you know what I'm sayin'? [...] My lyrics aren't, 'Pump it up, go! Go!' At least I'm sayin' somethin'." The song's hook samples the bassline of the 1981 song "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie who did not receive credit or royalties for the sample. In a 1990 interview, Van Winkle said the two melodies were slightly different because he had added an additional note, an anacrusis ("pickup") between odd-numbered and subsequent even-numbered iterations of the Under Pressure sample. In later interviews, Van Winkle readily admitted he sampled the song and claimed his 1990 statement was a joke; others, however, suggested he had been serious. Van Winkle later paid Queen and Bowie and as a result, Bowie and all members of Queen have since been given songwriting credit for the sample. In December 1990, Van Winkle told British youth music magazine Smash Hits where he came up with the idea of sampling "Under Pressure":
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The way I do stuff is to go through old records that my brother has. He used to listen to rock 'n' roll and stuff like that. I listened to funk and hip hop because rock wasn't really my era. But having a brother like that, well, I just mixed the two, and he had a copy of 'Under Pressure'. And putting those sounds to hip hop was great.
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Van Winkle described himself as the first rapper to cross into the pop market and said that although his pioneer status forced him to "take the heat for a lot of people" for his music's use of samples, the criticism he received over sample use allowed sampling to become acceptable in mainstream hip hop.
I clipped this from the "New York Post", It is an interesting perspective and it makes sense.
Trump and MAGA did not operate in a vacuum in the decade between 2015 and his re-election in 2024. His formal opposition was no longer the liberal Democrats of old but rather a new, far more radical manifestation. In their mission to fundamentally change the nation, they were more suited to 18th-century revolutionary France than 21st-century America.
The nature of the two-party system, of course, is to find ways to counter and even discredit the opposite party. Yet since the end of the Civil War, these disagreements had played out within accepted boundaries. But the decade of Trump, from 2015 to 2025, unleashed a hysteria unseen in over 160 years, one in which Democrats sought to destroy — not merely defeat — the candidate, then president, then ex-president, then candidate again, and finally re-elected President Trump.
What were the ideologies and motives that inspired their uniquely fanatical opposition?
One characteristic of the new radical Democratic Party was its pivot from solidarity with the middle classes to a movement of the wealthy and professional cadres as self-appointed protectors of the subsidized poor — a movement that reflected the 21st-century sources of influence and wealth within the Democratic Party.
Yet like the Jacobin movement of old, the new elites of the radicalized Democratic Party rarely felt that they should themselves be subject to the consequences of their own radical ideologies — whether climate-change taboos on personal energy use, open borders, defunding the police, etc.
Take, for example, the most radical firebrands of the new Democrats — Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Mayor Mamdani. They were all either children of the upper-middle classes or had claimed to be multimillionaires while in Congress or had arrived as immigrants from the ruling elite of their prior, usually illiberal, homelands — all in ways impossible for ordinary citizens.
Fires burn around downtown during a second night of rioting on Monday, August 24, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the George Floyd protests.Getty Images
Leftist elites proved ecstatic supporters of fringe issues — reparations to African Americans, transgendered athletes competing in women’s sports, and banning natural gas appliances. Such boutique obsessions either were of little relevance to or actively alienated the middle class and minorities.
The radical transformations started as early as the 2016 campaign. In their rhetoric, Democrats under once-moderate Hillary Clinton had become veritable Jacobins — the modern counterparts of French Revolutionary fanatics, as they substituted lawfare, radically transformed balloting laws and procedures, and weaponized federal agencies as their guillotine.
The left did not care whether a Trump position dovetailed with their own, was in the interest of the country or was popular. Instead, if they saw Trump’s fingerprints on a policy, they opposed it. Destroying this supposedly demonic public menace was worth appearing hypocritical or at odds with public opinion.
Never in their wildest imagination did the new Jacobins believe that they were tearing down protective norms and erecting in their place dangerous new precedents that might boomerang on themselves, especially if the supposedly permanently inert Trump ever returned to power.
The statue of the Greek philosopher Thucydides is seen in front of the columns of the Parliament Building on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, in Vienna, Austria.Universal Images Group via Getty Images
So the new Democrats were oblivious to the ancient warnings of the historian Thucydides, who chronicled the horrific left-right cycles of revolution on the island of Corcyra (modern Corfu) during the Peloponnesian War and the sheer folly of demolishing legal and cultural norms that would shortly be missed by those who destroyed them:
“Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all alike can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required.”
In 2020, an addled Joe Biden, in a Faustian bargain, had been nominated to provide a moderate veneer for this new hard-leftist Democratic Party. This Biden facade was necessary to conceal what became, after 2020, the most radical political agenda in modern presidential history, one implemented by this same Jacobin apparatus, which would never have been able to realize such dreams transparently or in normal times.
Aside from rampant inflation, massive deficits and DEI fixations, the most shocking of the new left-wing Democratic policies was the complete erasure of the southern border — a nihilism whose aim even neutral observers in retrospect could never really understand. Under Biden and his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the border simply and by design became nonexistent. Unfortunately, the influx occurred in an era when the tenets of the old melting-pot assimilationist and integrationist model had largely been damned out of existence.
“The Arrest of Robespierre on 27 July 1794,” a circa 1796 artwork by Jean-Joseph-François Tassaert.Heritage Images/Getty Images
During and after 2020, this same sort of Jacobin nihilism extended to almost every corner of American life. Mass looting and shoplifting in major blue-state cities were either lightly or not at all punished. In California and other blue states, stealing less than $950 worth of merchandise had been by ballot proposition officially deemed a misdemeanor, effectively precluding arrests, bookings, arraignments and jail time. That fact became well known to discerning criminals, and the impunity spread de facto nationwide following the death of George Floyd.
On a larger scale, the overall blue-state model that had emerged over the last two decades reached its logical breaking point. With huge voting pluralities, Democratic lawmakers had been free to put into practice some of their most radical immigration, crime, fiscal and diversity agendas.
Cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore and Portland had become synonymous with high taxes, eroding infrastructure, weaponized jurisprudence, huge unfunded pension obligations, unserviceable entitlement costs, poor public schools, high crime, lawless homeless populations and assorted green, antibusiness and DEI regulations.
Faust has a rendezvous with the devil in an illustration of Goethe’s “Faust,” the legendary story of scholar-magician Johann Faust, in 1850.Getty Images
All this surrealism proved utterly unsustainable, and it, too, fueled the Trump renaissance, given that there was no sign the Democratic Party would repudiate its neo-socialist drift and tack back to the center.
The blue-state paradigm reflected a new medievalism, with the few very rich, the many poor and a declining number in between. States dominated by the Democratic Party that claimed to rectify inequality were the most asymmetrical in wealth distribution in recent memory. Blue congressional districts had more inequality than their red counterparts.
After the turn of the millennium, elites in our coastal cities, east and west, were newly enriched by free trade and the ensuing huge globalized worldwide audiences and markets. Those in high tech, finance, entertainment and elite universities suddenly enjoyed billions rather than millions of consumers and clients.
The resulting spectacular wealth — $9 trillion in market cap in Silicon Valley alone — encouraged a romantic, top-down mindset. All the old civilizational challenges of food, shelter, transportation and energy development were now assumed to be permanently solved by this new professional class, without any investigation about whether their nostrums had actually improved the lives of the rest of society. A functioning society was taken for granted, as if running on autopilot.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event about drug prices in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Washington.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
In short, the elites conducted their social experiments and put their agenda of high taxes, radical green mandates, lax law enforcement, hyperregulation and woke sermonizing into practice without injury to themselves. In contrast, the lower classes were the proverbial lab rats who suffered the consequences.
As Americans en masse fled blue states for red, the left was not particularly bothered. Instead, the attitude of California and New York was a nihilist tone of “good riddance.”
As one Silicon Valley fixture, Shankar Singham, put it, “If everyone in the middle class is leaving, that’s actually a good thing. We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up.”
The later election of the unapologetic Zohran Mamdani only confirmed the notion that the flight of capital was more or less welcomed.
Two core realities defined the new elite leftism. First, in their hubris, the privileged left assumed that human nature was malleable and fluid. Like the Marxists of old, they would invent, through mandated massive government intervention and investment, a “new American” whose mindset and behavior met their progressive requisites and produced a brave new world to come.
Second, central to the such social engineering was the idea of exempting the rulemaking elite themselves from the new fiats, reminiscent of the prerogatives of the Communist Party nomeklatura in the Soviet Union.
The old liberalism of the 20th century that had embraced traditional values was now rare in the new scolding Democratic Party that fixated on the boutique and trivial while ignoring the existential.
In the left-wing fixation on Trump and his white voters as supposed racists, the left cast all reason, all history to the wind. In the meantime, the new Democratic Party did not grasp that the more obsessed they became, the less popular they appeared, or that Trump might have deliberately trolled them to achieve just such an effect.
Therefore, over a decade, any failure of the Democrats to destroy Trump was met not with introspection but with renewed zeal as they blindly raced headlong to their self-made near ruin — and the nation’s.
I shamelessly clipped this from "Aviation week".. I'm wondering how much AI is having an effect on drone and UAS operation.
A Wildfire UAS Fires a one of potentially 4 AGM-158c's
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) released the first renderings of the proposed Wildfire uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) on Sept. 9, revealing a configuration that the company hopes will gain support from the U.S. Air Force amid a pending competition to replace the MQ-9A Reaper fleet.
Three renderings released on social media reveal a fuselage shape that for the first time lacks the familiar, upside-down-spoon profile of the satellite communications radome common to the company’s Predator A/B series.
But the renderings released on the eve of the Air, Space and Cyber convention next week also show off the full weapons capacity of the Wildfire design. One image shows the aircraft potentially equipped with up to two Lockheed Martin AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship (LRASM) cruise missiles, each weighing nearly 2,800 lb. for a maximum payload weight of 5,600 lb.
Two other renderings present the aircraft with four Kongsberg Joint Strike Missiles, a 900-lb. anti-ship cruise missile.
GA-ASI shows the Wildfire UAS launching anti-ship cruise missiles at a distant naval fleet.
A GA-ASI spokesman previously said that other features being considered for the Wildfire UAS are a 10,000-nm ferry range, and an ability to swarm 100 of the aircraft together at the same time. One rendering appears to show an attack by a swarm of Wildfire UAS on a fleet of naval ships.
The renderings have been released as the Air Force looks for an affordable Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) to backfill a dwindling supply of Reapers, which have sustained dozens of losses in combat operations against Iran and Yemen since 2024. For the first time, the MMA program threatens GA-ASI’s grip on the Air Force’s hunter-killer mission that was largely defined by the Reaper over the last 20 years. A new group of startup companies, including Swarm Aero, are likely to propose new aircraft to meet the Air Force’s goal for a $10 million MMA that still offers a hefty payload and range.
I have posted this before in remembrance of 9-11-01. Unfortunately I believe that we as a society have forgotten what has happened, and we are importing people that believe the same way as the people that crashed into the buildings back in 2001. I fear that we are in for a rude awakening....again. We have a mayor of New York that is a muslim and supports the goal of the same people that caused 9-11-01.
When they celebrate "Muslim American Heritage Month and orders Freedom plaza to be lit green that to me is bowing to islam and sends the wrong message and we have the same governor of New York wearing a hijab in the presence of muslim men, they are putting their culture and beliefs above our own. When you keep importing 3rd world to our world, you will make our world like theirs, look at Europe, the elites are sheltered by the poor decisions they make but the common people are having to deal with the ramifications of unfettered immigration and the grooming gangs. It is no wonder that the "right leaning party AFD" won elections in Germany a few days ago...the regular Germans are getting pissed, despite the constant bombardment of propaganda they are getting from the state, it ain't syncing up with they are seeing.
Well anyway, it is 25 years since 9-11-01 and the world changed for us.
I set to post this on the scheduler thingie to drop on Sept 11, 2026. I wrote this post back in November of 2018, I have blogged before about Rick Rescorla, to me he went to Valhalla on the wings of Valkyries. To use a phrase that isn't used much anymore, "He died Well". Everyone dies, that is the truth of our existence, but some choose to run forward despite the almost certainty of death to make a difference.
The Battle of la Drang Valley was the first major battle in the Vietnam War. 36 years later, the first major battle of the War on Terror was the bombing of the Twin Towers.There are many people who remember both events, but Rick Rescorla is the only person who was at the heart of both. Rick Rescorla was born in Cornwall, United Kingdom, but was one of the most distinguished heroes in the initial battle of Vietnam. He gave his life on September 11, 2001. Just before the collapse of WTC 2. You can see all floors fully involved with fire and structural failure is imminent
Rescorla’s career in the military started at the age of 17 when he joined the British military. There he trained as a paratrooper and would later serve in Cyprus. At the end of his Short-Service Commission, he joined the Northern Rhodesia police before returning to London to join the Metropolitan Police Service. Rescorla’s tenure with the Met police was short-lived and he soon emigrated to the United States where he lived in a hostel in Brooklyn. He stayed there until he was able to enlist in the United States Army. He completed basic training at Fort Dix.
After basic training, he completed Officer Candidate School and airborne training, graduating with the assignment of platoon leader. He became infantry leader of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Rescorla and his men were one of the first combat units on the ground in Vietnam. In November 1965, he and his unit were involved in the battles in the la Drang Valley. One of the moments from these battles was captured by a war correspondent and appears on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once And Young. This iconic image is of Rick Rescorla holding his rifle with bayonet attached and marching forward into battle.
Rick Rescorla during the war, 1965
Rescorla and his unit fought at Landing Zone X-Ray before being extracted and provided with a brief rest. They were then instructed to return to the valley and reinforce another unit. The battles lasted three days, during which time the companies faced superior numbers but were able to hold off and drive the enemy forces back. For his part in the war, Rescorla was honored with the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, a Purple Heart, a Silver Star, and the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Some U.S. Army soldiers air-lifted into LZ X-Ray.
After leaving active duty, Rescorla remained a reserve, retiring with the rank of colonel. He used his military benefits to study creative writing and eventually earned a law degree from the Oklahoma City University School of Law. He would go on to teach criminal justice for three years and publish a textbook on the subject. His teaching career was short-lived and he moved on to the world of corporate security, joining Dean Witter Reynolds at their office in the World Trade Center. It was during his time there that Rescorla became concerned with the security of the towers. This was prompted by the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland.
The remains of the forward section from Clipper Maid of the Seas (Pan Am Flight 103) on Tundergarth Hill, Lockerbie Scotland, 21 December 1988
The bombing pushed Rescorla to invite his old friend, Daniel Hill, to assess the security of the World Trade Center. Hill was trained in counterterrorism and determined that the basement would be the easiest target for a terror attack. The two of them used the findings to write a report to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey insisting that more security be added to the parking garage. Their recommendations were ignored due to the costs, leaving the building open to the 1993 terrorist attack. During the 1993 attack, Rescorla was upset by the poor evacuation of the building and vowed that it would never happen again. In 1997, he became the director of security for Dean Witter/Morgan Stanley and was able to make some of the changes he wanted.
Procession of emergency vehicles at the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993. The Tower is on the far right of the frame. Photo taken by Eric Ascalon from an adjacent pedestrian walkway.
Rescorla did recommend that the company find different office space due to the vulnerability of the building, but lease obligations made this impossible. This left Rescorla to create an emergency evacuation plan that all employees had to practice again and again. The emergency plan ensured that Morgan Stanley employees were ready for any attacks. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Rescorla heard the explosion from the North Tower and saw it burning from his office window on the 44th floor of the South Tower. An announcement from Port Authority came over the PA system telling people to remain at their desks. Rescorla ignored the announcement, grabbed his bullhorn and ordered Morgan Stanley employees to start evacuating.
The north face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175
He directed the employees down the staircase and continued to encourage them when the building lurched as the second plane hit. To keep everyone calm, Rescorla started to sing as he had done for his platoon in Vietnam.
Rick pushing people out of the building in Sept 11, 2001 saving their lives, this was the last pic that was taken of that man.
2,687 employees of Morgan Stanley owe their lives to Rick Rescorla as they were successfully evacuated. After seeing to this, Rescorla returned to the South Tower to ensure that everyone was out. He was last seen on the 10th floor heading up shortly before the tower collapsed. His remains were never found and he was declared dead three weeks later.
The exterior support columns from the lower level of the South Tower remain standing after the collapse of the building.
Rick Rescorla was a man who saw battle with two armies and the start of the War on Terror. All but 13 employees of Morgan Stanley were able to exit the South Tower safely because of his leadership and foresight.
From everything that I read about the Japanese Soldier in WWII was that they were fanatical, dedicated, would sacrifice everything for the goals set by their commanders, they were imbued by a form of "bushido" or Martial spirit or the samurai spirit. Please realize that my descriptions are very simple, I could go on for pages if I wanted to do a deep dive. I respected the Japanese Soldier of WWII for what he could do, I did not admire them They were often cruel to the people they captured, but that was to me part of the draconian disciplinary system of the Japanese Army, where the lower enlisted were beaten by their NCO's for the smallest infractions, and they were frequently treated with disdain by their officers. They viewed the west as "weak" especially the United States, the Pacific War was brutal compared to the European war, it matched the savagery of the Eastern front, and in some cases exceeded it because there was no quarters given by either side. The Americans learned to be very wary of accepting "surrendering" japanese soldiers because it was frequently a ruse to kill more Americans, and if there were any wounded Americans, captured, they were almost always bayoneted by the Japanese. Like I said, very savage. compared to the War in the European Theater. The Americans had no compunctions of using flame throwers and other weapons on japanese positions during the island hopping campaigns. It was a very different war.
I got this off "Quora"
n "Nemesis" The Battle for Japan 1944–45’ by Max Hastings, a British army officer is quoted as making the observation that the Japanese were first class soldiers fighting in a third-rate army.
The soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army were brave, well trained and highly disciplined. They would rather die than surrender and, consequently, fought to the death to avoid the dishonour of being captured. However, technologically the IJA was backward compared to the other key armies of WWII. It lacked a decent tank nor a doctrine of how to use the ones they did have. In open ground warfare where there was space to maneuver the IJA was hopelessly outclassed, as Slim in Burma and the Red Army in Manchuria before and at the end of the war, proved. Moreover, senior IJA leadership were often appallingly incompetent in sending their forces into battle in adverse circumstances and this manifested especially in the manner in which logistical challenges were fatally underestimated, as noted in the question. This stemmed principally from a shocking underestimation of their enemies. It was frequently assumed that the lightly burdened, fast moving Japanese soldiers would overcome their enemies quickly - as they had done in Malaya and early on in Burma- and capture all the supplies they required from their defeated enemies. But by 1943, the offensive weaknesses of the IJA had been more fully recognized, its initial victories notwithstanding. It became clear that whilst the Japanese soldier was a formidable and ferocious enemy when defending in place behind fixed defensive positions, he was much less so out in the open when attacking.
Unfortunately for the Japanese army, in all three battles mentioned (and others besides) its enemies failed to cooperate by collapsing, forcing the Japanese soldiers to retreat with little food and in difficult conditions. The wounded who could not keep up were either killed or left to kill themselves with grenades, hopefully taking a pursuing Allied soldier with them. In Guadalcanal, on the Kokoda Trail and at Imphal/Kohima, the disastrous result of their offensive failures resulted in mass starvation amongst retreating Japanese soldiers as well as death from disease. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers in the Pacific were bypassed and left to rot on scores of islands and atolls as the United States Navy juggernaut continued its inexorable and innovative island-hopping advance towards Japan’s home islands.
A stark example of the hopelessly unrealistic ambitions of senior Japanese commanders, and their inability to comprehend logistical challenges, was the idiotic plan to disrupt British plans to retake Burma by attacking Imphal and Kohima in northeastern India. The brainchild of General Renya Mutaguchi commanding 15th Army, it would compel Japanese forces to traverse some of the wettest and most rugged country in Asia where annual rainfall sometimes reached 800 inches, with only a tenuous logistical lifeline, mounted against an enemy with overall numerical superiority and command of the air. It also came at a time when Japanese fortunes elsewhere had taken a decided turn for the worst. Mutaguchi proved a complete incompetent but his plan was approved in Tokyo after the most cursory examination of its feasibility by higher command, possibly because Burma was considered very much a sideshow.
The result was a battle in which the Japanese soldiers fought for many weeks with their usual ferocity but with decreasing prospects of success. Worst of all the 15th Army’s already weak logistical lifeline was disrupted by Allied air attacks, and they began to starve. After Mutaguchi refused pleas from subordinates to retreat, one divisional commander took it upon himself to order his division to do so. The incompetent army commander finally had no option but to order a general retreat. But by this time the monsoon had set in, tracks and trails had become all but impossible to navigate and thousands of Japanese soldiers died of starvation, disease and/or their wounds. The despised Mutaguchi was eventually fired.
One key consequence of this calamity was that the Japanese forces available to contest Field Marshal Bill Slim’s masterful campaign to retake Burma were greatly weakened , and even their fighting spirit in the later stages of the campaign was significantly diminished.
Logistics undoubtedly proved an Achilles heel for the IJA throughout the war.
