Just as Admiral Halsey had anticipated, the Palau operations, and Peleliu in particular, accrued no strategic advantages for the Americans. Operation Stalemate proved to be the very embodiment of a Pyrrhic victory, and a sour example of the wrong way to fight this war. American victories in the Marianas, combined with the decision to bypass Mindanao, and the preeminence of Allied air- and sea power, had already isolated every Japanese serviceman in the Palaus.
