Death March lessons

I too never quite picked up how long the march was until this presentation. To think of running 65 miles is quite a feat, to walk it is hard, but to walk it with no food or water in that climate would be/was deadly. I can only guess, but I would say that at least as many POWs died as a result of heat stroke/heat related complications as from random Japanese killings. No doubt they speeded the process with their 'shoot the stragglers' policy. This terrible event serves to underscore how any defense plan, even if it is sound, can be destroyed by trying to do too much with too little. Remember how Poland wanted to protect its industrial heart instead of pulling back to a perimeter they had a chance of defending? It seems Macarthur did the same type of thing here, and by the time he tried to correct his mistake, by pulling back to Bataan, it was far too late.