{"product_id":"2940148528845","title":"JAPAN\u0026#x2019;S DECISION FOR WAR IN 1941: SOME ENDURING LESSONS","description":"Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is\u003cbr\u003ewidely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How\u003cbr\u003ecould Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an\u003cbr\u003eenemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial\u003cbr\u003ebase 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan\u003cbr\u003ewas always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s\u003cbr\u003edecision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them?\u003cbr\u003eDid they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding\u003cbr\u003edefeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable\u003cbr\u003epeace?\u003cbr\u003eDr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision\u003cbr\u003efor war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese\u003cbr\u003epride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by\u003cbr\u003ethe United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in\u003cbr\u003eEast Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues\u003cbr\u003ethat the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well\u003cbr\u003eas Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from\u003cbr\u003ecultural ignorance and racial arrogance. Record finds that\u003cbr\u003ethe Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in\u003cbr\u003eJapanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness\u003cbr\u003eof economic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the\u003cbr\u003eJapanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an\u003cbr\u003earoused American society and overestimated their own martial\u003cbr\u003eprowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He\u003cbr\u003ebelieves that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that\u003cbr\u003ethe descent of the United States and Japan into war contains\u003cbr\u003elessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign\u003cbr\u003epolicy and defense decisionmakers.\u003cbr\u003eThe Strategic Studies Institute is pleased to offer this monograph\u003cbr\u003eas a contribution to the national security debate over the \u003cbr\u003euse of force to advance the objectives of U.S. foreign policy.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108883546352,"sku":"2940148528845","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148528845_p0.jpg?v=1763704331","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148528845","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}