Comments by "Elizabeth Loveland" (@Shineon83) on "Was General Percival Really to Blame for the Fall of Singapore 1942?" video.

With 20/20 hindsight, ANYTHING would have been better than surrendering to the Japanese ( and even if Percival was truly ignorant about how the Japanese treated POWs & civilians —almost inconceivable if he had given even cursory attention to Japanese atrocities in Nan King & elsewhere — his surrendering long before his troops had “fought to the last,’, given their all & exhausted all chance of victory—goes against not just military ethos, but against even an amateur’s assessment of Singapore’s strategic importance to the British in a conflict with Japan….) It is for the above reasons ( rather than simply his “surrendering too easily” ) that I have always found Percival to have been so culpable—not only for the defeat, itself, but for the deaths of tens of thousands ( of both his own men, and the captured & executed native population )….In a dictionary on “Military Terminology,” Percival’s picture should have place of pride under the definition of “Military Incompetence”….
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