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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (152113)10/5/2007 2:06:22 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) of 225578
 
According to the Gingrich book, there was a debate within the Japanese military as to strategy.

Traditional doctrine called for them to mass their fleet in in the western Pacific and draw the US into a battle of attrition, where they hoped to destroy the American fleet with battleships.

Yammamoto believed a quick, sneak attack on the American Fleet at Pearl would destroy the American Fleet and make the United States quickly sue for peace. He miscalculated, both because part of the fleet, including carriers, was at sea, and because he misunderstood the ferocious resolve of the US once we were attacked.

Of course, we would never respond the same way now. All the naysayers in Congress and on the left would be looking for ways to open a dialogue with the enemy.
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