Sea-Power in the Pacific

By Hector Charles Bywater · Running time 10:21:13 · War & Military, Modern (20th C)

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During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict against Japan might look like. Ultimately, the Pacific War looked very little like the crystallization of these efforts expressed in War Plan Orange. The Americans and the Japanese were both heavily influenced by the theories of sea power and decisive battle of Alfred Thayer Mahan, despite the lacklustre absence of any such climactic decision at sea in the Great War. The Pacific War would bear even less resemblance to Naval War College preconceptions as ba

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