"Keith Willshaw" wrote in news:bn3guk
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Well yes but the army retained the upper hand, its not as if they
were doing nothing. There was this little war going on in China
If you read Yamamoto's biography its clear that the navy OPPOSED
war with the western powers.

Where in the world did you get this information? The Japanese army
longed to attack Russia. The Japanese navy longed to attack into the
"southern treasure chest", incidentally liberating Asia from British,
Dutch, and American imperialism.


From the biography of Admiral Yamamoto which was written
by Hiroyuki Agawa published by Kodansha International

Right, but how do you jump from "Admiral Yamamoto opposed the war" to
"The Navy opposed the war"?

Admiral Yamamoto was fairly atypical among Japanese Navel offices in that
he had spent a fair amount of time in the US. He therefor had a somewhat
better appreciation than most in Japan of the ability of America to
simply crush Japan in terms of Industrial output.