Why were the Japs so confident in their attack on Pearl Harbor...

>Why were the Japs so confident in their attack on Pearl Harbor?
The military strategy was an echo chamber of sycophants who promised that Japan STRONK could never lose.
The admiral tasked with actually doing it knew exactly what would happen and warned them repeatedly, he was right, then he was assassinated because US military broke their codes and overheard his flight itinerary and intercepted and shot his transport down.
Ironically, he liked USA and never wanted to be at war with them but killing him probably put idiots in charge which would have worked out better.

So, this: We wouldn't really call killing him an assassination these days because military leaders are considered military targets but it was a different time and they agonised over the decision and whether it was a war crime, also whether it might risk tipping off that they were listening to their radio conversations.

>Pic
lol is that the jew thing in Berlin?
Get dabbed on kikes

>ITT retards that don't know how the Japanese defeated Russia with the same strategy decades earlier

The war was inevitable, so Japs attack first and take out battle ships. It's not a bad strategy. Look at Germany and how they failed to invade Britain. Germany would bomb the UK with bombs, but it really didn't go anywhere. Japs expected the same, just ineffective bombs and not enough ships to control the waters.
What Japs didn't account for because of their bugmen autism is that (White) Americans really do not like their people getting killed and they would get pissed enough that they would pull out experimental new weapons and test them out on human populations.

Japanese had a huge edge on the US in the beginning of the war but lost the edge due to a huge series of blunders by its top admirals.

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It was probably an accident or something. It was the olden days.

Japan had already lost by the time the bombs were dropped, they just wouldn't surrender.

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didn't expect germany to get raped so hard

look at the LARPing faggots on this board
imagine them in charge of a country
make sense now user?

that was for the little guy sent to die
it was a gamble that failed

Do you have documentation?

To fully understand the Japanese military you have to go back to before the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–1905 which had a lasting impact on their thinking, which was then reinforced and refined by the military and political events of WW1

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War

They were also heavily influenced by the Mahan Naval Doctrine.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thayer_Mahan

Then add the economic, social and political events between WW1 and 1930 and many of those agitating for war in Japan believed taking out the US was their best shot given the international situation.

They then proceeded to ignore virtually every principle of Sun Tzu's art of war, which ironically was required reading for every Japanese officer.

They entered a conflict they were unsure they could win. They attacked not only the European Allies, the Brits, the Dutch, and Australians, but also up until then neutral Americans.

To make matter worse they made a habit of dividing their forces, having unnecessarily complicated battle plans, and having poor inter service cooperation.

The fact they did so well initially is more a reflection of the fact that the Britain had squandered her military resources early on in WW2. The attack on Pearl harbor would not have achieved much even if they had caught and sunk the American carriers. The American industrial capacity and man power was too great. As it was it was a dismal failure, thus under pinning their critical failure to concentrate on only one enemy and their reliance on winning a war with what was essentially a false premise.

Then just to cap things off, their other critical weaknesses came into play at battles of Coral sea and Midway where they could not even beat an unprepared and at that time weak US force.

Basically they lost the moment they went to war with the US, before a shot was fired.

Now if they had concentrated against the British-Dutch and not attacked the Americans, things might have been different.

They had no choice, due to the oil embargo taking out 80% of their oil.

I guess they thought that if they took out the Pacific fleet all at once, it would buy them enough of an advantage to expand in SE Asia, then force a peace treaty.

Nobody expected the US to recover from the depression.

>nips tune into cnn circa 1942

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o.O from the 1940's? nuh just logic, why attack the USA while you are still attacking others. You wait till you win other fronts it is basic army strategy

It was a perfect storm of incompetent and high on themselves general staff and a civilian government who literally didn’t know better.
The generals where so divorced from reality that for much of the war they just refused to believe a lot of negative reports out right. They were also busy fighting a low scale shadow war between themselves depending on branch.

all replies are wrong. Japs gambled on hope that US will fuck off from asia due to high cost of war and low reward. pearl harbor wasn't as succesful as hoped due to the fact that a lot of navy was not in a hawaii naval base as hoped

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imperial japan had no choice, american jews were maintaining an illegal trade embargo on imperial japan

>whitey
>nuke
Nuke is a profoundly Jewish invention.
Well, just like the USA...

Their original goal in striking Pearl Harbor was to destroy all of the aircraft carrier groups stationed there, which would have eliminated the US ability to project power in the pacific, because it would have ensure Japanese air superiority.

The attack went awry because the aircraft carriers weren't docked in the harbor, but were out conducting routine exercises at the time of the attack. Without the loss of our Pacific aircraft carriers, we were able to mount a much more effective air/naval campaign than they were expecting/planned for.

Was probably an inside job to make USA join the war against kraut.

>Nuke is a profoundly Jewish invention.
Nazi's were closest to making a nuke.
>Well, just like the USA...
America was invented by Freemasons, not Jews.

911 of that era

>Why were the Japs so confident in their attack on Pearl Harbor?
they thought the plan was good
>Now if they had concentrated against the British-Dutch and not attacked the Americans, things might have been different.
not likely. i think america would have been dragged into it.. eventually. the relationship between america and japan was already strained at that point.

Pearl Harbor is one of those times history could have been shaped in a completely different way. As it is the attack didnt really do much, none of the high value targets (carriers) ware present some of the ships they did damage ware actually repaired and saw further action. Imagine if Japan managed to take out a carrier and sink a ship at the entrance to the port clogging it up, the war would have went completely differently.