Isoroku Yamamoto

>>1877938
When your government gives you orders and you're a soldier, you do the professional thing.

Unfortunately for him, his government had more nationalism than sense.

>>1877947
it was more to do with the fact that the government was completely dominated by the military and decisions were made entirely based on military strategy without consulting the diplomatic corps.

They looked at a map and saw how vulnerable American control of the Philippines made their position and attacked with the conventional wisdom that America was a weak and decadent nation that lacked a strong will to fight. Had they consulted with members of the diplomatic mission to America they would have learned about how America's traditional isolationism and resentment over the resolution of ww1 made many Americans very reluctant to enter war again, and how Americans would not take kindly to being backstabbed.

This is a major problem with a military dictatorship.

>>1877938
>Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit

All he had to do was wait until 1967.

>>1877938
He argued against the war, then saluted and delivered when he was ordered to. They were aghast at his plan to bomb Pearl; they thought it was retarded and favored a more conventional approach, but he told Tojo and the rest of those fuckers look, you ordered me to do this, NOW LET ME DO MY FUCKING JOB.

I honestly wish he would have survived the war and written his memoirs. They would be priceless.

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>dude behind every blade of grass there's a rifle LMAO

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>>1877973
>tripfagging for reasons other than to be identified temporarily in a thread
bannable offense, actually.

>>1877978
the time to bitch about that was 5 years ago.
now look at the average poster here, bunch of facebook using normalfags.

>>1877978
I've been Phil Ossiferz Stone for eight years, newfaggot. I'll be 'Deplorable' until the election is over. Deal.

>>1877973

>I honestly wish he would have survived the war and written his memoirs. They would be priceless.

Plenty of guys much, much worse than him survived the war. It ain't fair, but nothing ever is. Going to war against the US was never his preferred outcome.

>>1877964
I thought the problem was that those in charged believed war with the US would be a repeat of the Russo-Japanese War, i.e. a devastating first strike followed by overwhelming numbers would result in the US suing for peace before it could brings its industrial capacity to bear?

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>>1877938

He was a soldier and felt honor-bound to obey his orders (he also had genuine reason to fear for the safety of his family if he didn't, pre-war Japan was wracked political instability).

Isoroku Yamamoto was a tragic figure rivaling Gunther Lutjens and Wilhelm Canaris if you ask me. A decent and honorable officer whose government was corrupted from within and he was dragged along for the ride. Shame he didn't muster the will to just resign/retire in the 30s and start that casino in Monaco like he always wanted too.

>>1877973

He probably wouldn't have outlived the war by that long. The US would've wanted his head for Pearl.

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>>1878081
>The US would've wanted his head for Pearl.
Yes... but he didn't actually commit any lurid bloodthirsty atrocities. I like to think he'd have gotten off and been retired. Like Rommel would have. They were the Black Knights of their respective civilizations.

>>1878060
indeed, but because the government was dominated by the military and didn't consult the diplomatic corps they didn't understand that the American people generally lacked the will to fight unless provoked into it.

>>1877988
Man, I wish you fuckers just head back to /k/ before you could pollute this site with /pol/shit and stupid beliefs over premodern weapons.

>>1878373
just filter that retard

>>1878202
Actually the army(which was the force that dominated japan) had little to do with the decision to attack the US, they wanted to invade the USSR but after the failure at Khalkin Gol this plan lost all credibility and the navy propped up its plan to invade the pacific, it was all part of an internal power struggle.

>>1877973
>>1877988
What the fuck, you're bad enough on /k/ get the fuck out my safe space on /his/ REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1877938
Imperial orders, m8, he had no choice.