Japan's Decision for War in 1941: Some Enduring Lessons by Jeffrey Record (Paperback / softback, 2009)

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Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s decision?.

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Japan's decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo's decision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace? Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan's decision for war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened ecomic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural igrance and racial arrogance. Record finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and hor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of ecomic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the Japanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an aroused American society and overestimated their own martial prowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He believes that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that the descent of the United States and Japan into war contains lessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign policy and defense decisionmakers.
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JEFFREY RECORD is a well-known defense policy critic and teaches strategy at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He has served as a pacification advisor in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War, Rockefeller Younger Scholar on the Brookings Institution's Defense Analysis Staff, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, the Hudson Institute, and the BDM International Corporation. Dr. Record also has extensive Capitol Hill experience, serving as Legislative Assistant for National Security Affairs to Senators Sam Nunn and Lloyd Bentsen, and later as a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is the author of eight books and over a dozen monographs, including Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win; Dark Victory: America's Second War Against Iraq; Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo; Hollow Victory, A Contrary View of the Gulf War; The Wrong War, Why We Lost in Vietnam; and Bounding the Global War on Terrorism. Dr. Record received his doctorate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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Author(s)
Jeffrey Record
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Date of Publication
01/02/2009
Language
English
Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
1470063085
ISBN-13
9781470063085
Subject
Politics: General & Reference

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United States
Imprint
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Content Note
black & white illustrations

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122 g
Width
152 mm
Height
229 mm
Spine
4 mm

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Trade paperback (US),Unsewn / adhesive bound

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