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Admiral Yamamoto knew that the Empire's future rested on the opening battle of the war. His task force had to sail undetected over a vast sea and destroy the enemy fleet in port. If his ships were detected or if the enemy set a trap, all would be lost. A smashing victory in the war's early hours could lead to a negotiated settlement but not victory because the enemy possessed a true two-ocean navy and Japan's European ally had not proven that it could prevent the redeployment of this second mighty armada. Compared with its opponent, whose people numbered more than 100 million and whose territory spanned a continent, Japan was a second-rate power. But Yamamoto had to set these considerations aside. Convinced that negotiations had failed and alarmed by the enemy's continued military buildup, the Japanese cabinet voted for war. In the months leading up to war, Japan's rival celebrated the success of its Far Eastern strategy because desultory negotiations bought time for the deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers and scores of warships to Asia. But in the end, the strategy for containing Japanese continental expansion may have been too successful. In the final months of peace, the

Author

Sidney Pash

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN