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Editorial

Editorial On 16 August 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, in which he contended that “General [Douglas] MacArthur and General [George] Patton would be in a state of shock if they were alive today to see the way President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton try to recklessly announce their every move before it happens—like they did in Iraq—so that the enemy can prepare and adapt.” 1 His observation no doubt resonated with many of his listeners then and when he made similar remarks on several occasions later in his campaign. A central reason for this positive reaction was how many Americans remember the two military commanders as winners who always triumphed on the battlefield. “There is no substitute for victory” was General MacArthur’s famous dictum that he announced before a joint session of Congress following President Harry S. Truman’s recall of the general for acts of insubordination in the Korean War. Robert D. Schulzinger has examined how Americans rely on memory to understand past u.s. conduct in world affairs. “What people choose to recall, forget and change in the process,” he perceptively explains, “set the context of what people think is important in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2016 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Editorial
ISSN
1058-3947
eISSN
1876-5610
DOI
10.1163/18765610-02304006
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Abstract

On 16 August 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered a speech in Youngstown, Ohio, in which he contended that “General [Douglas] MacArthur and General [George] Patton would be in a state of shock if they were alive today to see the way President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton try to recklessly announce their every move before it happens—like they did in Iraq—so that the enemy can prepare and adapt.” 1 His observation no doubt resonated with many of his listeners then and when he made similar remarks on several occasions later in his campaign. A central reason for this positive reaction was how many Americans remember the two military commanders as winners who always triumphed on the battlefield. “There is no substitute for victory” was General MacArthur’s famous dictum that he announced before a joint session of Congress following President Harry S. Truman’s recall of the general for acts of insubordination in the Korean War. Robert D. Schulzinger has examined how Americans rely on memory to understand past u.s. conduct in world affairs. “What people choose to recall, forget and change in the process,” he perceptively explains, “set the context of what people think is important in

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Journal of American-East Asian RelationsBrill

Published: Nov 21, 2016

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