I couldn't care a jot about "delivery", as long as he's got good information - and he does. These land-sea battles and the distances involved are difficult to unwind in the mind. Japanese intentions are to this day not completely knowable. Japanese commanders in the field would countermand orders whenever they thought they could win another prize. Winning alone often trumped lines of authority, coordination, and obedience. Lundstrom gives some of the varied thinking of US and Japanese commanders that put several new variables of the story in focus for me.

My point exactly.

There is a reason he is a writer and not a public speaker. I would love to see more of him discussing the topics of his books, but unlike Jonathan Parshall, Mr. Lundstrom's strength is answering questions posed to him rather than giving presentations.

yea, in Australia our governments look for reasons to get rid of the few public holidays that do exist.

In the US Veterans Day is no longer a Holiday. When I was a kid in the 60's there were huge parades of wwii veterans and it was a day off from school. Todays generations seem to have forgotten the tremendous sacrifices made.

@@ppumpkin3282 So true

Yeah, same, and I grew up in Cairms.

Or Citino, or like what we who teach do every day. However, there is often a difference in "types"; many researchers would prefer to just research and not stand in front of an audience. Lundtröm does fine, he has his knowledge.

Jonathan knows it and has great recall. He has the ability to connect to his audience.

Disappointing a subject mater expert reading off a script.

@@timf2279 He is a writer and not a speaker. It is unfortunate because I love his four books about events of 1942 in the Pacific. The multitude of podcasts here on KZfaq would be bolstered by his knowledge, but I have not seen Lundstrom on more than one other video on YT.

Well above? Only one person was above his pay grade and that was Roosevelt. He was part of the combined chiefs and so he only had peers, not superiors.

Staffan Goldschmidt he didn't spell it,Someone else did at the Museum

You are wrong. It is Lundstrom. Obviously it was Lundström before with his ancestrors Just as with your own name. There was originally no "Goldschmidt" in Germany or Austria. It was Goldschmied. Which over time "degraded" into Goldschmid or Goldschmidt.

Your a douche bag STFU

TheLookingOne so you can Do better?

This is the dumbest comment I've seen in a while......

Just don't watch or listen to the clip. You weren't forced I assume.

Rather common actually. I have experienced quite a few university profs etc. who aren't/weren't the best "presenters." Which usually didn't bother me. But I also have experienced "great" presenters, some of which often enough had no real substance or here and there talked crap.