I have not been too interested in the Pacific war but lately I have been reading stuff on it.

Just to bring a couple of questions up and keep discussions alive:

1. Was the Japanese tactics after Pearl Harbor correct? It is claimed that it was more like " we attack everywhere " and all the Japanese forces were too widely separated. Jamamoto´s tactics? Any ideas? Could they have been more victorious with other tactics? More ideas?

Jamamoto´s principles I guess:

-Initiate surprise attack on US PACFLT at Pearl Harbor.
-seize all available natural resources in Pacific;
-retire to defensive perimeter behind island barriers;

-await US to sue for peace


2.Until November 26, 1941, Roosevelt had been negotiating with two Japanese diplomats who had come to Washington to try to resolve a crisis with the United States which began in August 1941. At that time, with no warning, the United States embargoed all shipments of oil to Japan. The Japanese were baffled and infuriated by this decision. For three previous years, the United States had supplied fifty percent of Japan's oil, while her army conquered much of China. Why had Roosevelt chosen this moment to cut off the oil?

Instead Roosevelt let Secretary of State Cordell Hull present the Tokyo diplomats with a ten point ultimatum on November 26, 1941.
Tokyo had set November 29 as a deadline for a settlement. After that the Japanese negotiators were told that war would become inevitable.

Maybe the Japanese had underestimated the US but as well it seems the US underestimated the Japanese...

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