Similarities.

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"The Japanese, despite their extensive preparation of the battlefield, were almost doomed to fail as soon as the Americans had encircled the city. Once isolated, as seen in other urban fights, the defenders lost the ability to resupply, and were consigned to either starving or being rooted out one by one by the advancing Americans. With a force of nearly twenty thousand men, the Japanese should have been able to mount a counterattack and break out from the encirclement of only thirty-five thousand Americans in three divisions, but the lack of coordinated Japanese counterattacks and overall static defensive strategy allowed the Americans to effectively trap the defenders and clear the city."

The Battle of Manila 1945 the most accurate representation of what will be seen if and when a massive Israeli ground force invades Gaza?

"FIGHTING FOR THE PEARL OF THE ORIENT: LESSONS FROM THE BATTLE OF MANILA"

From https://mwi.westpoint.edu | thanks to Benjamin Phocas | 08.01.23.

Devoted readers to the blog strongly encouraged to read the entire Benjamin Phocas article.

Gaza [2023] and Manila [1945] similar with regard to:

* Hamas and the Japanese both fanatical. Battlefield preparations more than ample and well thought out, according to a defensive plan.

* The presence of large number of civilians Gaza and Manila complicating any sort of military operation. A prolonged ground assault Gaza by the IDF will produce a lot of bad optics for the international media as detrimental to the Israeli cause. 

* Gaza and Manila you have the presence of hostages and internees their rescue a primary goal creating difficulties most profound. Israeli hostages of Hamas held Gaza and American POW and civilians held Manila captives of the Japanese!

HEY! DID ANYONE EVER SAY THIS WAS GOING TO BE EASY!

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