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Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War - Was Defeat Inevitable? - cover

Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War - Was Defeat Inevitable?

James B Wood

Casa editrice: Stackpole Books

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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 b
Disponibile da: 14/06/2023.
Lunghezza di stampa: 152 pagine.

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