This is part four of a multi part series on the war in asia and the pacific area between about 19 31 and 19 forty five. If you like your stories in some sort of linear order and you haven't heard the earlier segments, you might want to catch up by checking those out first. This is supernova in the east four. Its history. It's hard core history. We had said earlier that the early parts of this conflict are the acid test of combat, the rubber meets the road moment. The other side to the conflict, its goals, much harder to measure. And if you can't measure it, how do you know if it's working or not? How