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the Joint Army-Navy Board met in November 1941, the global war it bad foreseen was about to erupt. The board’s War Plan Rainbow-5 assumed that the Philippines were indefensible. But, just as Rainbow-5 did not anticipate Pearl Harbor itself, the board could not foretell the reactions of an unpredictable, intractable subordinate, General Douglas MacArthur.Credit DroneScapes