Brass Hats behind Bamboo Palisades: Senior Officer POWs in Singapore, Taiwan, and Manchukuo, 1942-45
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study is about the prisoner of war experiences of generals and senior officers who surrendered to the Japanese at Singapore in February 1942. It sheds further light on some of the salient issues that emerge from their experiences including nationality-inspired differences between senior officer POWs (vividly seen when British. American, and Dutch generals and senior colonial officials are imprisoned together in Taiwan and, later, Manchukuo) and how the stress of captivity brings out personality traits that tell us something about these officers as military leaders. Differing combinations of character, circumstances, priorities, and possibilities influenced their responses to prison camp life, but certain traits, such as staff officer mentality, the appeasement reflex, and self-imposed pressure to restore personal reputations, stand out among leading figures including Lt. General A. E. Percival whose surrender of the naval base at Singapore remains one of the major controversies of the Second World War in Asia.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".