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A War it Was Always Going to Lose - Why Japan Attacked America in 1941 (Hardcover)
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A War it Was Always Going to Lose - Why Japan Attacked America in 1941 (Hardcover)
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Jeffrey Record has specialised in investigating the causes of war.
In "The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing
Hitler" (Potomac Books, Inc., 2006), he contended that Hitler could
not have been deterred from going to war by any action the Allies
could plausibly have taken. In "Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies
Win" (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007), Record reviewed eleven
insurgencies and evaluated the reasons for their success or
failure, including the insurgents' stronger will to prevail.
"Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq" (Potomac
Books, Inc., 2009) includes one of Record's most cogent
explanations of why an often uncritical belief in one's own victory
is frequently (but not always) a critical component of the decision
to make war. Record incorporates the lessons of these earlier books
in his latest,"A War It Was Always Going to Lose: Why Japan
Attacked America in 1941". The attack on Pearl Harbour is one of
the most perplexing cases in living memory of a weaker power
seeming to believe that it could vanquish a clearly superior force.
On closer inspection, however, Record finds that Japan did not
believe it could win; yet, the Japanese imperial command decided to
attack the United States anyway. Record finds conventional
explanations that Japan's leaders were criminally stupid, wildly
deluded, or just plumb crazy don't fully answer all our questions.
Instead, he argues, the Japanese were driven by an insatiable
appetite for national glory and economic security via the conquest
of East Asia. The scope of their ambitions and their fear of
economic destruction overwhelmed their knowledge that the
likelihood of winning was slim and propelled them into a war they
were always going to lose.
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