Thread 17915189

Victory pacific

is there a word for when operational difficulties cause military leadership to engage in a spiraling expansion of war aims instead of the limitation of war aims?

it happened here in china and, to a much more limited degree, in indochina 20 years later

Is this a rehash of the Guadalcanal spergout thread?

>>17915191
God I hope so

>>17915190
No, but there is a phrase: 'sunk cost fallacy'.

>>17915189 (OP)
>Hull note required Japan to give up all light green areas.
China would absorb Manchuria as soon as Japan relinquishes it, so those borders on that map wouldn't even exist. They'd then absorb Tibet, so that border is superfluous too.
American decision makers were short sighted af.