So you are saying the civilians can do no wrong and generals must fight with an Army that was untrained and badly supplied by that civilian and the civilian behavior cannot be pointed out.
It was not the military who picked a fight with the Japanese
It was not the military who put the fleet into Pearl Harbor against the militaries recommendation.
It was not the military who refused to call up the Philippine Army to active duty and supply it with money and arms
It was not the military who split the US fleet into two, moving half of it to the Atlantic leaving the fleet in the Pacific much weaker
It was not the military who cut of oil, trade and financial ties to Japan which everyone knew set the clock ticking toward war and the suddenly reverse policy and call up the Philippine Army to active duty and rush supplies to the Philippines when it was too late.
This was all done by a civilian named Roosevelt and he was the person most responsible for the defeats suffered by the US in the first six months of the war.
Yes, yes, yes. Just like how Ludendorff and Manstein were defeated by that bungling idiot Hitler, so is it with the US Army: it has neither the maturity nor the responsibility to ever admit it's made up of human beings that can make mistakes. It must always be treachery, it cannot be that the US Army suffered from a poor battlefield leadership.
1) No, the civilians were angling for a fight with the Germans. It was Japan that picked a fight with the USA, the civilians were pushing the military into a war it never wanted, with Germany on the side of the British Empire and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The US Army and Navy could have cared less about Hitler when that was going on.
2) Putting the fleet in Pearl Harbor was a valid move as a display of US strength and resolve. The problem is Japan wasn't thinking on those lines so the display was irrelevant in practice. In any event every WWII Army had to do what its civilian masters told it, bar Japan. And we know how well that military dictatorship did.
3) At a point in time when the USA was not willing to call up US troops of US citizens and arm them, that the USA was not going to do this in the Philippines is hardly surprising. The Philippines did not have a strong military force even on paper.
4) Erm, that split predated WWII by a period going all the way back to the start of the US Navy. This point is flat out nonsense and bollocks.
5) On the contrary, the feeling was that this would deter Japan from a war, amplified by the long-term buildup of the B-17s. The problem was nobody realized Japan was able to organize a massive simultaneous pan-Pacific Offensive. Anybody that did would not have said it for fear of being sacked.
6) I thought that the Japanese Army and Navy had a little something to do with those defeats myself, but what do I know?
