Arthur Percival
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Why Did the Malayan Campaign Fall in Seventy Days?
Everyone has heard that "Singapore's guns were pointing out to sea". That claim is popular because it reduces defeat to an act of sheer stupidity
In the early hours of 8 December 1941, Japanese forces landed in Kota Bharu — earlier than Pearl Harbor. On 15 February 1942, Percival surrendered. Seventy days in between. This piece is not about military history. It is about what those seventy days destroyed: a premise everyone had taken for granted, and the people who were on the list, and those who were not.