Quote Originally Posted by CavSct1983 View Post
We are a nation borne of the defeat of an empire at the hands what, 3% of the total population in the 1770s?

Why on earth would we, established as we were by the 1940's, do anything but crush the ever living shit out of Japan?
That's my point. It seems so obvious. So why didn't the Japanese leadership listen to Yamamoto?