And I can point to a historical precedent: WWII, or, as the Japanese say, the Pacific War.
Artists, hardened on the frontlines of the Pacific war, brought a considerable degree of realism to their drawing.
Japan has been planning its policy of a third opening of Japan after the Meiji Restoration and the era right after the Pacific war.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Meets with Prime Minister Kan at G8 Summit
Previously, Mr Dower mapped the political topography of Japan in the years leading up to, during and after the Pacific war through the eyes of Shigeru Yoshida, who became prime minister during the allied occupation.
Emptied of all aspirations and ideology, the Japanese spent the next seven years (the allied occupation lasted almost twice as long as the Pacific war itself) having their minds filled with a wholly new vision and set of dreams.
It had added another surreal dimension to this ghoulish Pacific war: the bimbos debarking from gargantuan transport planes, flashing their teeth and gyrating their groins, then becoming almost instantly airborne again, leaving behind thousands of doomed devils with aching gonads.
My classmates and I, being the youngest of the young, remained uniformed college students for the longest period, while those who were only a year or so older went off for officer training and preceded us into those terrifying island battles which marked the last stages of the Pacific war.
Douglas MacArthur's intelligence staff in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
In 1942, the Battle of Midway, the turning point in the sea war in the Pacific, began.
McCain and was commander of the Pacific Theater during the Vietnam War, when Jack's father, now Arizona Sen.
CNN: At Naval Academy graduation, lives of McCain, Obama overlap
Many returned home after the war in Europe ended, though the war in the Pacific was still raging.
Mr Morales was speaking on Bolivia's "Day of the Sea", when it commemorates its defeat by Chile in the 19th Century War of the Pacific.
As America winds down more than a decade of fighting in Central Asia, some analysts would have the U.S. prepare for war in the Pacific.
FORBES: It's Time To End Japan's Defense Dependence On The United States
In the 1879-84 War of the Pacific, Chile won control of mineral-rich land once held by Peru and Bolivia, and the outcome left Bolivia landlocked.
The borders between the two neighbours date back to the 1904 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, signed after Bolivia lost 400km (250 miles) of coastline to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1884).
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines is the largest of the overseas cemeteries, with more than 17, 000 Americans, marking World War II's Pacific Theatre.
Spread spectrum was first used by the allies in the Pacific campaigns of the second world war, where it foiled Japanese attempts to jam radio-controlled torpedoes.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
And when it comes to our military and Chinese security, part of the reason that we were able to pivot to the Asia Pacific region after having ended the war in Iraq and transitioning out of Afghanistan is precisely because this is going to be a massive growth area in the future.
Japanese soldiers were found living on Pacific Islands a full decade after World War 2 ended.
FORBES: Age of Context: Social Media Becomes a Mature Platform
Now, by going to war against Spain in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and by establishing what it thought of as a stepping-stone to the China market, the United States had abandoned its own splendid isolation and thrown itself into the worldwide struggle.
But tensions on the military front are having an increasing impact on policy making in Washington and Beijing as China's growing military power starts to challenge the supremacy that the U.S. has enjoyed in the Asia-Pacific region since the end of World War II.
Navy ships visit, Air Force jets fly overhead and war games are played off the Pacific island's shores.
Bolivia also peacefully disputes access to the Pacific Ocean since losing its coast after a war with Chile in the 19th Century.
The economic miracle that began here in Japan after the Second World War has now swept across the Pacific and throughout the wider region.
Watson climbed down to Wreck Beach, where there were two abandoned gun towers, built during the Second World War to protect Canada from a Pacific invasion.
Bolivia has said it will take Chile to international courts to try to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a war 132 years ago.
Down the suasion chain there is much of the rest of North Africa and Middle East (part of the same street drama as in Egypt), Nigeria (West African oil belt), NATO including ever-trickier Turkey, Colombia and Panama (drug war) and an Asian-Pacific scene full of its own goblins.
He had served in the navy in the second world war, and saw action in the Pacific.
应用推荐