>>>>Please don't misunderstand that as a defense of the attack on Pearl Harbor, because there is none. We had done nothing to provoke it.
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>>Really? ;-) You're saying the Japanese spontaneously attacked which nobody expected? ;-)
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>I know there are theories that the U.S. knew it was coming but the general reaction was it was a surprise attack, a sneak attack.

But did the japanese admirality not also have the task to minimze their own casualties ?
The same way todays soldiers from the military more developed countries are put out of range,
either in airborne delivery platforms or even further via drones ?

From the things I read, the US was cutting off Japan economically.
As I was not around that time, I am probably missing some frame[s] of reference.

regards

thomas