Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto: Japan’s Naval War Leader - Warfare History Network
Admiral Isoruoku Yamamoto led the Imperial Japanese Navy into war but warned that the United States was a formidable foe. This article appears in: Early Fall 2012 Brave, urbane, and complex, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was Japan’s greatest naval strategist and the architect of one of the most stunning achievements in the history of modern warfare. Fluent in English, he studied in the United States and claimed many American friends before he became one of their deadly enemies. A solid and widely respected man, he argued passionately for peace in the 1930s while fascism spread in Europe and a fanatical militarist faction in Tokyo was calling for aggressive expansion in the Far East. Yet Yamamoto was a patriot to the bone, and when ordered to fight, he waged war with a vengeance. As war approached, he was initially uneasy and warned his countrymen of the likely consequences of provoking the West. Having studied briefly at Harvard University and spent two years in Washington as a naval attach
A certain amount of revisionism regarding Yamamoto has arisen over the years. In actuality, he was thoroughly pragmatic and took his views of the US in that light. The one thing he overlooked was American tenacity. Even if his original plan for a victory at Midway, Coral Sea and the Solomons was successful, it would only have meant that the inevitable Japanese defeat would have taken a little longer. The signal example was the American Civil War when it took almost three years for the Union forces were able to employ coordinated strategic campaigns instead of each army commander going out on h
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