[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders

[J. Forster]

The Japanese attacked those assets capable of projecting power against
them...  offensive targets. Other targets were secondary.

The industrial capacity and resources of the US would have won, sooner or
later.

Japan never had the capacity to invade and hold the US mainland. Their
only realistic option was a raid, followed by a quick truce.

YMMV,

-John

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> OK, for obvious reasons, the Japanese had to give priority to Battleship
> Row and Hickham Field. 
>
> Did the initial strike have sufficient resources to also take out the oil
> storage tanks and dry-docks or would a second strike have been needed? You
> can see why the Japanese carrier force would not want to stick around for
> a second strike. After all, the U.S. carriers were unaccounted for. 
>
>                                     Joe Connor
>
>
>
>>________________________________
>> From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
>>To: Tim <timsamm at gmail.com>
>>Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>>Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 7:54 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders
>>
>>Probably.
>>
>>-John
>>
>>===================
>>
>>
>>> Their failure or oversight to attack the dry dock installations was a
>>> far
>>> bigger mistake...in retro-retrospect....
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:52 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It takes far less time to build an oil tank than a battleship. They
>>>> are
>>>> just steel plates and welds or rivets and a few pipes and valves and
>>>> pumps.
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>> ================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Their worst blunder was not sending in the third wave and taking out
>>>> all
>>>> > of the oil tanks which would have make Pearl useless as a navel
>>>> base.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On 2/10/2013 10:03 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>>>> >> FWIW, the Japanese placed a lot more emphasis on accomplishing the
>>>> >> mission, then returning home. They certainly mounted one-way
>>>> sortis.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> With that in mind, a radio in every plane is a lot less important.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> YMMV,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> -John
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Gary Pewitt   N9ZSV
>>>> > 1500 French Prairie Rd
>>>> > Booneville, AR  72927
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
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