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Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: Was Defeat Inevitable? Hardcover - 2007

by James B. Wood


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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 had traveled that alternate military road the outcome of the Pacific War could have been far different from the ending we know so well--and, perhaps a little too complacently, accept.

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  • Title Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: Was Defeat Inevitable?
  • Author James B. Wood
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Date 2007-08-02
  • ISBN 9780742553392 / 0742553396
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.89 x 6.44 x 0.7 in (22.58 x 16.36 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Japan, Japan - Military policy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007006497
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.540

About the author

James B. Wood is Charles Keller Professor of History at Williams College.
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