You're right J.O.
Maybe us Yanks, Aussies and Kiwis should have stood back and let the Japanese catch Chinese/Korean/Vietnamese/Filipino babies on their bayonets, and use our soldiers for bayonet and Samurai sword execution practice nstead of lighting them up almost 70 years ago.
After all, it would be only 30 years or so until they felt comfortable and learn from gentle guidance that sort of behavior isn't acceptable.
It wasn't long ago when we in the west had the same cockpit culture, but learned to change to stop the bloodletting.
You do illustrate a point in world history as to why the western world has seemed to dominate every other culture in warfare. That would be despite our near barbarian status compared to the early advances of the Islamic world and the Asian cultures going back a couple of thousand years, we seem to adapt to what works best quickly no matter whose idea it is. (not always as Uncle Ho proved, as well as Yamamoto V1.0)
Let me guess as to how long our operations would last in other parts of the world if daily ops splattered their airports with Boeing, Airbus and their citizen's body parts.
Not long I'd guess.
