Fighting China 1931 - 1932 in the estimates of US military

The authors analyze the problems of assessing the attitude of the US military to the events in China in the 1931-1932. They focus on the mixed attitude of US officers to the Manchu incident. The authors examine documents and personal records of the military in order to reconstruct their perception of the history of conflict. The memoirs of the US military reveal that information trends in the perception of the Sino-Japanese conflict persisted for a long time. The decisive role in the formation of the image of the Sino-Japanese war was played not by personal convictions and views of the American military, but by assessments and concepts created by the military-political leadership, the press, and the investigative commissions.