After his first marriage ended in divorce, apparently MacArthur went into deep depression & seriously considered suicide. Suppose he'd done it?
How much better could the Pacific War have gone? Might it actually have been worse for the U.S.?
MacArthur would never have been in command in P.I. Would that have influenced the amount of matériel DC sent? Who might have gotten the job, instead? Would the new guy have prepared better, with artillery sites & caches of material (like for roadblocks)? Or might he have been incompetent? Would he still have held back the B-17s on day 1 of the war?
Without MacArthur, was there any chance of P.I. independence before the war?
How much better could the Pacific War have gone? Might it actually have been worse for the U.S.?
Without MacArthur, was there any chance of P.I. independence before the war?