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A War It Was Always Going to Lose: Why Japan Attacked America in 1941

A War It Was Always Going to Lose: Why Japan Attacked America in 1941


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Jeffrey Record has specialised in investigating the causes of war. In "The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler" (Potomac Books, Inc., 2006), he contended that Hitler could not have been deterred from going to war by any action the Allies could plausibly have taken. In "Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win" (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007), Record reviewed eleven insurgencies and evaluated the reasons for their success or failure, including the insurgents' stronger will to prevail. "Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq" (Potomac Books, Inc., 2009) includes one of Record's most cogent explanations of why an often uncritical belief in one's own victory is frequently (but not always) a critical component of the decision to make war. Record incorporates the lessons of these earlier books in his latest,"A War It Was Always Going to Lose: Why Japan Attacked America in 1941". The attack on Pearl Harbour is one of the most perplexing cases in living memory of a weaker power seeming to believe that it could vanquish a clearly superior force. On closer inspection, however, Record finds that Japan did not believe it could win; yet, the Japanese imperial command decided to attack the United States anyway. Record finds conventional explanations that Japan's leaders were criminally stupid, wildly deluded, or just plumb crazy don't fully answer all our questions. Instead, he argues, the Japanese were driven by an insatiable appetite for national glory and economic security via the conquest of East Asia. The scope of their ambitions and their fear of economic destruction overwhelmed their knowledge that the likelihood of winning was slim and propelled them into a war they were always going to lose.

About the Author :
Jeffrey Record is a professor of strategy at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Bounding the Global War on Terrorism (2004), Dark Victory: America’s Second War against Iraq(2004), and Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007). He served in Vietnam as a pacification adviser and received his doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He lives in Atlanta.

Review :
"In Record's usual elegant and powerful prose, this is an insightful mining of a historical case study for broader conclusions on the dynamics of deterrence, culture, perception, and rationality in strategy. Those who read it will learn much."-Steven Metz, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute “Tells an important story about momentous strategic miscalculation-on both sides-that most Americans only think they know. Record draws clear and compelling lessons that should caution current leaders against the risks in dealing with proud and ambitious enemies whose judgments flow from different cultures, assumptions, and priorities.”-Richard K. Betts, director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University “Jeffrey Record's important new book incisively and persuasively analyzes the reasons why two nations that had every reason to avoid war in 1941 found themselves engaged in what would become an unusually brutal struggle.”-George C. Herring, author of From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776


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  • ISBN-13: 9781597975346
  • Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Potomac Books Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Sub Title: Why Japan Attacked America in 1941
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1597975346
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Weight: 399 gr


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