Sea-Power in the Pacific

LibriVox recording of Sea-Power in the Pacific by Hector Charles Bywater. Read in English by Alister During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict against Japan might look like. Ultimately, the Pacific War looked very little like the crystallization of these efforts expressed in War Plan Orange. The Americans and the Japanese were both heavily influenced by the theories of sea power and decisive battle of Alfred Thayer Mahan , despite the lacklustre absence of any such climactic decision at sea in the