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Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War - Was Defeat Inevitable? (Hardcover)
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Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War - Was Defeat Inevitable? (Hardcover)
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In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received
wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically
inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese
military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan-to
secure the resources Japan needed and establish a viable defensible
perimeter for the Empire-that the Allies were able to regain the
initiative and lock Japanese forces into a war of attrition they
were not prepared to fight. The book persuasively shows how the
Japanese army and navy had both the opportunity and the capability
to have fought a different and more successful war in the Pacific
that could have influenced the course and outcome of World War II.
It is therefore a study both of Japanese defeat and of what was
needed to achieve a potential Japanese victory, or at the very
least, to avoid total ruin. Wood's argument does not depend on
signal individual historical events or dramatic accidents. Instead
it examines how familiar events could have become more complicated
or problematic under different, but nevertheless historically
possible, conditions due to changes in the complex interaction of
strategic and operational factors over time. Wood concludes that
fighting a different war was well within the capacities of imperial
Japan. He underscores the fact that the enormous task of achieving
total military victory over Japan would have been even more
difficult, perhaps too difficult, if the Japanese had waged a
different war and the Allies had not fought as skillfully as they
did. If Japan had traveled that alternate military road, the
outcome of the Pacific War could have differed significantly from
that we know so well-and, perhaps a little too complacently,
accept.
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