Was Japan s attack on Pearl Harbor a fool s errand?

It must have been a foolish decision, because the United States wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman, underestimating Japan's ambitions, and Japan also underestimated the strength of the United States, which eventually provoked the United States to drop the atomic bomb.

Yes, because the naval power of the United States is very strong, and Japan is not an opponent, which is tantamount to asking for trouble.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was a foolish decision, and because after his attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had a reason to join the war, so after this incident, there was a more intense war.

Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a very stupid decision, and if he hadn't attacked it, he might not have been bombarded by an American shell and almost destroyed his country, so his decision was very stupid.

Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a foolish decision, which led directly to the entry of the United States and accelerated the speed of Japan's demise.

Personally, I think that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not a stupid decision, but a very correct decision, if they succeeded, they would get unlimited benefits, the main thing is that they will continue to expand their country's territory and so on.

The scale of the Second World War was maximized!

First of all, Japan's army and navy looked down on each other, and there was no good coordination between the two, and after the army launched a series of wars of aggression, it was praised by the main battle faction in the country, and the navy was eager to make meritorious contributions, and they did not choose to cooperate with the army, but fought separately. They want to show their hand in the Pacific.

At that time, the strength of the Japanese Navy was indeed very strong, and the aircraft carriers and battleships of the Fengxiang and Yamato, which were the largest aircraft carriers and battleships in the world in terms of tonnage, were known as unsinkable giant ships in Japan.

Due to the intensification of World War II, although the United States did not participate in the war on the American continent, the United States, as an anti-fascist side, has imposed an economic blockade on Japan through the embargo on oil, steel, and coal. This is a very big blow to Japan, which has been mired in a long-term war of attrition, without which Japan would not be able to support this war at home. However, Japan lacks local resources, and these raw materials can only be obtained through trade with the United States.

So Japan began to have ideas about the United States.

Before World War II, Japan won two foreign wars, which also made the Japanese Navy, which ranked among the top three in the world at that time, overestimate its own strength, they believed that the US military could be driven out of the Pacific Ocean through the strategic concept of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, if Japan could take advantage of the US military in the Pacific within three months, then the anti-war voice in the United States would exert a lot of pressure on the United States, if the United States continued to engage in isolationism, and Japan made peace, Then Japan can rely on the United States to continue to import the strategic materials they need.

Japan has long lacked big strategy, they are only good at small tactics, but lack great wisdom, lack strategic vision, and several chance victories have also carried away Japan's senior commanders.

As a result, Japan brazenly launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and although the unsuspecting American troops suffered heavy losses, the U.S. military soon stabilized the situation in the Pacific, and the United States declared war against Japan. The final demise is in the countdown.

Because Japan needed to wage a war in the Pacific, and the U.S. Navy was an adversary that it had to face, according to the pre-war naval disarmament agreement, the total tonnage of the Japanese Navy was probably controlled by 5 to 3 compared with the United States.

Japan is at a disadvantage, and Yamamoto knows the real industrial strength of the United States, so he wants to gamble and let Japan have the advantage of maritime control within half a year to a year by eliminating the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, and seize the resources of the South Seas, and it is best to deter the United States.

And the reason why Japan launched the Pacific War was because there were no resources, and the US sanctions were like playing a game, there were no mines, and they could only grab them.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hitler scolded the Japanese fool, and after that, the United States officially declared war on the fascists, and the United States intervention completely changed the course of World War II, but the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor alone was quite successful.

We know that Japan had several reasons for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

1.In 1939, Japan's domestic supplies exceeded demand, and it implemented a nationwide rationing system, and in occupied areas such as China, it implemented a policy of feeding the war with war. The shortage of resources forced Japan to occupy Southeast Asia as soon as possible. And the United States is a stumbling block to it.

2.The "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" designed by Japan included Southeast Asia, especially the oil-rich Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines had to pass through the United States to get there.

3.On the question of whether Japan would advance north into the Soviet Union or southward, the Japanese decided to go south despite the fact that the Nomenkan incident and the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield were unclear. 4.

The United States imposed an embargo on strategic materials against Japan, and Japan felt that war with the United States was inevitable, and since it wanted to fight, it had to strike first.

5.Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was an attempt to crush the US Pacific Fleet at one time, and on the other hand, the United States had no strength to take care of Southeast Asia for the time being. At the same time as the air raid on Pearl Harbor, Japan landed in the Philippines and launched an all-out attack on Southeast Asia.

6.Japan was confident in its plan to attack Pearl Harbor. It turned out to be a real success.

Some people believe that Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was one of Japan's failures during World War II, which not only failed to completely destroy the US Pacific Fleet, but also caused the United States to enter the war ahead of schedule, so that the balance of victory in World War II completely tilted in favor of the Allies.

However, as long as we carefully analyze Japan's strategic objectives and national conditions at that time, it is not difficult to find that the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was actually a strategic act that was very much in line with Japan's interests and national conditions at that time.

As early as July 25, 1927, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka presented a secret letter to Emperor Showa, which mentioned: "If you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria." If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China.

If China can be conquered by our country, then other nations such as Minor Central Asia and the South Seas of India will fear and respect me and surrender to me, and the world will know that East Asia is our East Asia, and will never dare to invade us. This is the infamous Tanaka Soga.

In 1941, Japan had completely controlled the three northeastern provinces and Mongolia, most of China had also fallen, and Britain and the United States had given up their colonies in Southeast Asia.

At this time, the Japanese army had no rivals in the Asia-Pacific region except for the 7th Fleet (Pacific Fleet) stationed in Hawaii by the United States, and if it wanted to control the Pacific Ocean, it had to destroy the Pacific Fleet first!

So the Pearl Harbor incident that shocked the world broke out in this way, from the point of view at that time, the results of this battle were undoubtedly quite brilliant, this was the first and only time that the United States mainland suffered an armed attack by the enemy, the Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses, lost its combat capability for half a year, the Japanese army also occupied a large number of islands in the Pacific Ocean during this time, established maritime links with Germany, and the rich resources of Southeast Asia were also transported to Japan faster and safer.

Nowadays, when it comes to the reasons for Japan's defeat in World War II, most people believe that it was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the hatred of the United States to its defeat.

Because if Japan wants to unify Asia, it needs to launch a Pacific war, and the United States is a strong opponent, and although the United States is stronger than Japan in many aspects, Japan still wants to take a gamble to see if it can scare the United States.

At that time, Japan felt that it was in the palm of its hand, so it was very confident that it would attack Pearl Harbor, but later due to a translation error, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan.

At that time, the United States imposed ** sanctions on Japan, freezing all Japanese assets in the United States, and Japan was mired in war at that time and urgently needed a large amount of war resources, so Japan could only take risks, hoping to hit the United States hard, and then seize Southeast Asia.

It was because of its shortage of resources that it had to take a risk and blow up Pearl Harbor in the United States in order to obtain resources.

Because Japan is an ambitious country, he didn't take the United States seriously at all.

At that time, Japan wanted to occupy a base in the Pacific, and at the same time, it wanted to prevent the United States from stopping its aggressive plans for a period of time.

(2014 Yichang) During World War II, the United States declared war on Japan, and the further expansion of the war was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The reasons for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor can be traced back to the situation in Asia during World War II and Japan's occupation policy. Japan was trying to become a powerful imperial power, expanding its territory in Asia and eliminating American influence in Asia. The United States was one of the main forces against Japanese expansion at the time, and Pearl Harbor was the main military base of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, so it was seen as an important target for Japan to attack the United States in the Pacific.

In addition, Japan also had some domestic and foreign affairs problems at that time. In the course of its invasion of Asia, Japan has been subjected to a number of international sanctions and pressures, including the U.S. oil embargo and sanctions. And Japan believes that it has insufficient reserves in important resources such as oil, and that a sudden war with the United States could lead to the collapse of its economic system.

Given various factors, Japan decided to destroy the US Pacific Fleet by sneaking up on Pearl Harbor, weakening its influence in the Asian region, and trying to force US pressure and sanctions on it. But this action eventually led the United States to join World War II and retaliate strongly against Japan, which became one of the turning points of the war.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a Japanese attack on a U.S. naval base during World War II.

Japan's expansion into Southeast Asia, which began in mid-1941, caused dissatisfaction among the major powers in the region, and in order to give the Japanese army a little warning, the United States froze its ** against Japan, the most important of which was high-octane oil. Without oil, the Japanese war machine could not function, and the ships broke down, which meant that they could not continue the invasion, and in order to ensure normal aggression and plunder the oil, the Japanese army decided to take a risk.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese successfully carried out the Pearl Harbor raid.

But it was this successful raid by the Japanese army that made the Japanese army even more vigorous in World War II.

In addition, Japan's oil can only last for half a year, and Japan understands that it can either withdraw its troops from China, stop its external expansion, and move closer to the United States diplomatically. Either they will form their own banners, go south to seize strategic resources, and continue to intensify their aggression against foreign countries. There are colonies of the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands in the South Seas, and entering the South Seas is tantamount to declaring war on the United States, Britain and the Netherlands.