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Originally Posted by Ron
from what i have read it seems that Japan's main hope relied on a hope that if Japan could overrun US possesions in the pacific and destroy her fleet..the US would go to the table. They knew that they could never defeat the US in a prolonged war...and they also knew it was not feasable for them to invade the west coast.
Interestingly enough the top brass in the Japanese military believed their own false propaganda and believed we were a lazy, weak, spoiled people...and once things started going bad the people would go against the war...and BAM the wars over.
Guess they didn't expect our other traits...getting revenge and fighting back!
anybody have anything else to add?
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Hi Ron,
The japanese Navy, specifically Yamamoto, knew the Americans and their capabilities. The Japanese had a curious system in training their commanders. They would assign their officers to embassies of the major powers around the world to observe their militaries as part of their training. They would send their Army officers to countries with a land military tradition, countries like Germany, France and Russia, and they would send their Naval officers to countries with strong naval traditions like Britain and the US. Yamamoto knew the US well and warned the Japanese government that if notivated the US would be a most formidiable foe, but the government at the time was dominated by the Army which held the US in disdain. Consequently Yamamotos warnings went unheeded.