remarkable pattern in the career of Douglas MacArthur. In less than a decade, the United States military had been disastrously blindsided in Asia on four occasions: the 1941 Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines; the North Korean invasion of the South in June 1950, followed by the Chinese military intervention there of five months later. Save for Pearl Harbor, MacArthur had been the on-site commanding officer for all of them.
