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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821019303321

Autore

Wood James B. <1946->

Titolo

Japanese military strategy in the Pacific War : was defeat inevitable? / / James B. Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-7425-5339-6

1-4616-3808-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/0952

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Japan

Strategy - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - Pacific Ocean

Japan Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-133) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Going to war -- Losing the war -- Winning the war -- Missing ships -- Sunk -- A fleet in being -- The battle for the skies -- The Japanese Army in the Pacific -- The road not taken.

Sommario/riassunto

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 abandoned its original strategic plan to secure resources and establish a viable defensible perimeter 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. If Japan h