Good video, BTW.
I often watch some of these old 'battle' documentaries and without fail the 'strategy' and 'reasoning' of certain moves mystifies me even though the narrator will nearly always present the 'plan' as obvious.
Being somewhat obsessed with the Civil War I've read hundreds of books about the war and the individual battles yet even so the 'strategy' of these specific battles often mystifies me. I just don't have a 'military mind', I suppose.
Example: At Midway, as presented in this video... the USA was losing EVERYWHERE until very near the end of the battle when a scant few dive bombers took the Japanese Carriers out.... why were these dive bombers deployed so late in the battle? What was the purpose of the previous sorties that lost every single plane and achieved nothing at all... not a single hit on any Japanese vessel?
In this Midway video I was most mesmerized by the (admittedly stock footage that in reality was most likely completely unrelated to Midway), 'office' scenes of men working to decode, plan, deploy, etc. The scope of intricate details that had to be addressed just seems to me overwhelming, not humanly possible. - JamesJM
