About this episode
Colonel Peter Mansoor, U.S. Army (retired), General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History at The Ohio State University and authors of Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines , joins the show to discuss the largest campaign of the Pacific War, the liberation of the Philippines. ▪️ Times • 01:08 Introduction • 01:30 Why West Point? • 06:11 Petraeus • 09:55 A huge scale • 11:25 War Plan Orange • 16:25 Inevitable • 20:07 The guerrilla war • 26:53 Mindanao & Luzon • 31:33 Leyte Gulf • 37:52 A do or die campaign • 40:04 Manila • 44:34 Command responsibility Follow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod , and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack