PEARL HARBOR

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

Introduction

The attack on Pearl Harbor was executed by the Japanese Imperial Army on the morning of December 7th of 1941. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu in Hawaii was directed against the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy and air forces defending the area.

Discussion

The treacherous attack ends a long "cold war" between Japan and the United States opening a vast new in the Pacific theater of military action that takes its place alongside those already active in Europe. To address these problems, the Army argues the case of a lightning coup against the South-East Asia in order to enrich its products with the market such as rice, oil, tin, sugar, tobacco. Thus, while, the German attack on France Japan decided to occupy French Indochina in July 1941 will become part of that circle of Japan's sphere of business interests called the Greater East Asia. The Japanese Empire to the United States ensured that the expansion in Southeast Asia was peaceful but U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt through a system called the Magic of the U.S. Navy who could decipher the secret codes of the Japanese. He knew with certainty that the intentions of Japan were anything but peaceful. The Navy Japan was preparing to launch a lightning attack that was vibrating a mortal blow to the United States. In Washington Colonel William S. Friedmann and his group of code breakers could decipher in timely Japanese diplomatic codes and, therefore, aware of the preparation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I cannot understand, therefore, why the island in the Pacific Fleet had not been warned of the imminence of the attack.

The military operation on Pearl Harbor was conceived by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and included a clear strategy but extremely brutal completely destroy the enemy base through immediate action gaining supremacy in heaven thanks to carrier. If, the attack had been successful, Japan would create a defensive barrier to other islands in the Pacific or the United States, at the height of their power they could cross granting permission to hold the Japanese in their possession, many of the territories occupied during the Second World War.

Admiral Yamamoto ordered his project to develop a small group of staff to study a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor. Because, he knew that only dealt a crushing blow to the main training ship attacking Japan would guarantee ...