War, Peace, and International Relations. An Introduction to Strategic History

the United States now would be so acutely worried about developments in Europe that it would have no appetite for a firm policy ...

Questions What were Japan’s foreign policy objectives? How did the events of 1939–41 in Europe influence Japanese policy and st ...

13 World War II in Asia–Pacific, II Strategy and warfare Introduction: over the cliff There was much diplomatic activity in the ...

on the German military bandwagon, Tokyo decided firmly not to abandon its recent neutrality pact with Moscow. This seemed to be ...

As a matter of a strategic geography, the Japanese Empire in the early 1940s was, in theory, at risk from four directions. The m ...

Soviet Union – which remained a distinct possibility until quite late in 1942, and feasible even in 1943 – and as a consequence ...

A month later, and again with heartfelt thanks to superior code-breaking, the US Navy succeeded in ambushing the carriers which ...

both were reluctant to take needless risks. These were two formidable navies. It is worth remembering that despite the combat at ...

commentators have disdainfully termed a strategy of ‘indecisive encirclement’. However, the American liking for a rapid, direct ...

explanation is that the stakes were too high for a fleet-to-fleet encounter to be risked for anything other than the most pressi ...

Japanese Army and Air Force in China. Then they would launch a bombing campaign against Japan’s Home Islands from Chinese bases ...

In its geographical scope, speed, operational agility and, above all, strategic effectiveness, carrier-led warfare was revolutio ...

The course of the war from June 1944 until August 1945 was characterized by skilful Japanese ground defence of the Philippines ( ...

The British imperial dimension Readers may have noticed the neglect here of the long and bitter struggle in Burma. The war in Bu ...

Conclusion Strategically viewed, the war in Asia–Pacific revealed a familiar weakness in state- craft on the part of Japan. In c ...

always recognized, and would never acquiesce in Japanese establishment by force of arms its notion of a Greater East Asia Co-pro ...

Little has been said thus far of those analytically convenient concepts, the ‘decisive battle’, or event, and the ‘turning point ...

Further reading H. Agawa The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy(New York: Kodansha International/US, 1982). C. Ba ...

14 The Cold War, I Politics and ideology Introduction: from war to peace – the consequences of World War II The Cold War has pas ...

Map 14.1 Europe after 1945 ...