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However, this conflicted relationship prevented a solidified military strategic vision, with both leaders working against each other to sway the Emperor. By the spring of 1942, Japan had attacked the US bases in Hawaii and in the Philippines, controlled the Dutch Indies, Wake Island, Guam, Thailand, and Burma. The Japanese intended to establish control over the Pacific region and were successful in the execution of their offensive through the late winter of 1942. During the operational pause in early 1942, there were several options the Japanese could have taken to avoid the defeats suffered over the remainder of the war. First, the Japan military should have transitioned to a defensive posture. Second, if the Japanese were to remain on the …show more content…

Admiral Yamamoto’s drive destroy the American carrier capability was so fierce, it dominated the operational planning. The Naval General Staff should have transitioned to a defensive posture to consolidate their gains made thus far in the war. If Japan had reinforced and built up key positions on their new territory, it would require the US to fight much further east against a bunkered in enemy. Clausewitz argued that there were advantages to taking the defense, depending on who had the initiative. Japan’s war aim was to acquire regional control over the Pacific. The US initiative was to stop Japan. Therefore, in this, it was more advantageous for Japan to fortify a stronghold from which to fight and expel US forces. While the US carrier fleet survived the Pearl Harbor attacks and the Air Force developed long rang bombers, if they US needed to commit forces in Southeast Asia, traveling through Japanese controlled expanses, it would arguably stress US logistics and manpower, especially as the US Pacific campaign was woefully under …show more content…

First, the Japanese Navy had suffered damage to the fleet and lost a number of trained personnel. Given the extremely limited military industrial complex of Japan, the Navy needed to take time to repair and rebuild what they could. Second, the Japanese logistic capacity was already limited and stretched thin, even by the winter of 1942. Conquered territory needed to be reinforced and resupplied. For every mile the Navy moved the front, it cost the logistic commands two miles to support the interior lines. Lastly, although this point is nearly impossible to prove, if the Navy had shown a willingness to limit the number of offensive operations, they might have gotten more support from the Japanese Army. General Showa was not against naval operations in the pacific, but constantly worried that they Navy would require too much ground support. If the Navy fortified already taken ground, it might have eased the tension and mistrust between the services and allowed for a more joint operation at the strategic

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But fortunately for the United States, they were able to intercept and decipher the Japanese code. This gave the United States enough time to gather up forces to fight against the Japanese. The Japanese goal was to end the United States involvement in the Pacific. A couple months before the Battle of Midway the United States was able to launch a surprise Attack against the Japanese which they were launched from the island of Midway. The United States was able to successfully bomb the Japanese mainland.

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This paper focuses on the failure of diplomatic decisions made by Japan that is national in nature most particularly when they chose to fight in the midst of an embargo made by the American government. The attack of Japan against Pearl Harbor is a result of an erratic, egoistic and irrational behavior blinding the Japanese Military Personnel and Officials of the destructive outcome of the World War 2 and a lack of diplomatic strategies that misled the communication between USA and

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Rahul Bagga Mr.Campbell US History, Period 0 16 December 2015 Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? One day that will always be remembered by America is the date of December 7, 1941, which changed American history forever. December 7, 1941 was the day the Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) which stationed many of American ships and airfields. Immediately after the bombings, United States President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, leading to a direct involvement into World War ll. Japan had many reason to do so but Japan attacked Pearl harbor for three reasons which were that they had a plan for a new world order, United States were expanding their number of naval ships rapidly, and an oil embargo was placed upon Japan

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After determining the disposition of US Naval forces, the Japanese could have reprioritized their efforts, focusing on the US Carriers and the redirecting back to

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This prevented them from attacking other countries due to allies that were formed between them and America. With America’s strong military forces, Japan decided that to keep America out of

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The plan was drawn up by the joint Army and Navy Board and later refined by the Navy’s General Board. With Japan being a remote island group and “dependent on imports” the main question became “how to get its (United States) navy over there” ? From there came two different philosophies, one being thrusters and the other being called cautionaries. Thrusters looking for a much quicker and forceful attack to push naval forces across the Pacific. On the other end of the spectrum cautionaries, who wanted to

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The blockage in trade resulted in heavy sufferings for Japan’s military. Previous Prime Minister Hideki Tojo expected the oil supply to last only two years before navy ships are compelled to stop moving (Doc E). Japan’s displeasure at this affair soon developed into an aspiration for revenge at Pearl

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The Japanese were aware of this and using it to their advantage by examining the possibility of capturing Port Moresby, Tulagi, New Caledonia, Fiji and Samoa (Navy & Straczek, 2015). The objective of this plan was to expand and improve the Japanese perimeter as well as cutting America and Australia’s lines of

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Due to this location of the fleet, it would leave the US too exposed and vulnerable, being difficult to defend in behalf of placement closer to Japan, furthermore surrounded 360 degrees by ocean. Soon after, FDR reduces the supply of oil and materials to Japan and gains permission by Churchill to place US warships in Singapore near oil fields in the Dutch East Indies. As a result of the new adjustment to the fleet the Dutch also reduce their supply of oil to Japan under Roosevelt's pressure, and give permission to base US warships. As increasing amounts of American naval forces were being moved from local bases to the Pacific, twenty-four submarines were sent to the Orient along with cruisers and destroyers all the way to Japanese home waters. With FDR's “Lend-Lease Act” passed, money and other resources can now be given to the Chinese and British Governments to fight Japanese, doing away with America's war neutrality once and for

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In 1940, President Roosevelt moved the US Pacific fleet from California to Pearl Harbor. The US congress also passed the Naval Expansion Act, promising to triple their fleet size by 1944 (Doc C). Japan did not want the US in the Pacific. They also did not like that the US was expanding their own naval fleet while taking away all of their useful resources. The movement and potential expansion of the US naval fleet angered Japan.

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And since they had just attacked Pearl Harbour and taken away multiple vessels from the USA, they knew that America would have cared more about Pearl Harbour. They also knew that the land was good land to own, as it can work in many different strategic ways. And in order to be able to collect this piece of land, the Japanese needed a large amount of soldiers. In the category of manpower, they delivered, as they sent 50,000 men, whereas the defence,

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Also depleting air strength meant the remaining warplanes had to be hoarded to defend Japanese Home Islands. With no available means to defend Iwo Jima, Japan decided to rely on the established defensive equipment in the area and check U.S. by delaying tactics to gain time for defense of the mainland. Japanese Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was assigned the task of defending Iwo Jima. Knowing he couldn’t win the battle, he aimed at inflicting heavy casualties on American forces to force them to reconsider invasion of Mainland Japan. His strategy was radically different from Japan’s usual strategy of beach defense to face the landings directly.

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“From December of 1941 to the spring of 1942, Japanese forces advanced virtually unimpeded throughout the Pacific and southeastern Asia while handing the Allies a string of humiliating defeats, first at Pearl Harbor, then at Guam, Wake Island, Singapore, and in the Philippines. By the spring of 1942, the outcome of the war was very much in doubt as Americans began to think that the Japanese military was invincible. "The Pacific situation is now very grave," cabled President Roosevelt to Winston Churchill in March of 1942, after the Japanese conquest of Java.”

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Their plan was a smart one, they knew Pearl Harbor was going to be hard to attack, it was far away and had shallow waters, easy for a torpedo to miss and do no damage at all. But Japan

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Japan wanted complete control over the Pacific region and the US was considered the imminent threat. The Japanese planned to isolate the Pacific region; and aimed to destroy the battleships, block the ports and have complete domination of the region. The mission commissioned by the Japanese was partially successful but failed to achieve its major objective. The Japanese wanted to block the Pearl Harbor, primarily to prevent access for the ships and increase the turnaround time for the US Navy to be operational again. Luckily for the Americans, a total disaster was averted as the crew of the USS Nevada moved their battleship out of the harbor into the sea, preventing many additional lives from being lost, as well as providing the crucial time for the US Navy to regroup and

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