This week on the blog, a fireside chat about planetary invasions which is actually about the efficacy of firepower (esp. airpower) vs dug in infantry. Also, I effort to get some mileage out of my academic regalia because it cost a fortune.https://acoup.blog/2020/07/17/fireside-friday-july-17th-2020/ …
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You mentioned the Japanese surrender in WW2 being motivated by US Nuclear bombing. I had always heard the only motivating factor was the Soviets entering the war against Japan. What is the historical consensus on this?
Fiercely debated. I don't think it is accurate to say there is a consensus, especially taking international scholarship into account. I'd say Soviet entry as the *only* motivation seems pretty clearly to be a minority view, advocated mostly as a devil's advocate challenge.
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Whereas the debate mostly lives in a space where both the Atomic bombings and Soviet belligerence were key factors and the question becomes the balance between them and the implication that has on the necessity of the first. That debate is still very much unsettled.
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What would you recommend for good recent scholarship on this subject? One of the reasons I brought this up was that I had read things but as a non-historian it is hard to tell when a paper or article is cherry picking sources.
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