Alfred Thayer Mahan is blamed for Pearl Harbor (and thanks for his failure) Skip the parts of a thesis and it will be part of your wisdom, and it may not be the most appropriate part of your case. The Americans took Alfred Thayer Mahan for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They also have Mahan to give thanks for the failure of the attack. The Imperial Japanese Navy could have been a devastating strategic blow against the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy, Destroying the indispensable infrastructure of fleet operations in the western Pacific. Instead, the Japanese pilots focused their bombs, torpedoes and fired at US battleships anchored on Ford Island.
The results were spectacular but fleeting. The raid did little to delay
the US counterattack for some months and sparked the popular resolution
in the United States to trigger this counterattack. If you decide to hit
a sleeping giant, it is best to kill him. But Japan has not done it.
why? Ancient charts on marine theory help explain the methods of I.J.N.
Japan Kedek Putai, or the force of air strikes, sent thousands of miles
from the oceans to Pearl Harbor in part because of Mahanian's
installation of the naval command on the Pacific Pacific
battle
line. The strategic decision to launch the attack and the tactical
decision to abandon attacks on the infrastructure that supports the US
fleet is part of the way Japanese Navy leaders read Mahan's Empire.
Therefore, the attack on Pearl Harbor is an example of the dangers of
reading pieces of history or military theories, or choosing parts of
parties that support ideas or preferences. Skip the parts of a
thesis and it will be part of your wisdom, and it may not be the most
appropriate part of your case. The theory exists to guide strategic
thinking. It can distort strategic thinking if misused. Japanese
strategists have long been thirsty consumers of Mahan's writings, mainly
his work "The Influence of the Power of the Sea", 1660-1783
(1890). In fact, the "missionary of the naval force"in America called
the Japanese as the most enthusiastic readers. He said it was linked to
"pleasant correspondence with many Japanese officials and translators"
in
relation to maritime exploitation. None of these, nor the American,
British or German sailors, paid "more attention or attention to the
public question". In fact, Mahan considered the Japanese victory over
the Russian navy during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) over the
navigators that IJN"studies his works. "As far as I know,"he said, "more
work has been done to Japanese than to any other language."It seems
that the IJN was an attentive student. The victories at the Battle of
the Yellow Sea (August 1904) and the Battle of the Yellow Sea (May 1905)
confirmed it. Tokyo had conquered the ships of China and Russia at that
time, and took a master's degree in the western Pacific. The
United States Navy formed the only remaining barrier to complete
Japanese rule. The United States had learned itself in the Far East
after its occupation of the Philippine islands in 1898. The troops
stationed there could prevent regional supremacy in Japan. In
recognition of this, Japanese strategists have been planning how to
overcome the US fleet in the Pacific, assuming the fleet will travel
west of the US west coast.
Or Hawaii to respond to an attack in the
Philippines. Much of the same process works on the sea side. The
shipyards build warships, warships that control the sea lanes that
connect the country of origin with important commercial areas, and the
warships are stationed in maritime bases along remote beaches for fuel,
storage and maintenance. Industry, combat ships and naval terminals are
the three links in the marine supply chain. Break any link in any of the
chains and each project of the sea moves away, A country
where there are no shipyards, or whose vessels have been destroyed by
the actions of the enemy, can not have an army that acts as custodian of
a merchant. But, says Mahan, even the fleet of a vibrant industrial age
resembles a herd of "wild birds, unable to fly far from their own
beaches" unless the official has access to the stations on the
road, to the facilities of replenishment of fuel and fuel between the
port and the ship's destinations far. Road stations such as the islands
of Hawaii, Midway Island, Wake Island and Guam. The construction of a
logistics network, says Mahan, is one of the "primary duties"of any
government that has ambitions on the high seas.
