Table of Contents

Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
1. Sink Ten Ships and We Win the War!
2. Initial Japanese Strategic Choices
3. Pearl Harbor
4. Yamamoto Defies Mahan
5. Guadalcanal
6. Central versus South Pacific
7. Two Prongs Divide the Fleet
8. Decisive Combat in the Marianas
9. From Honolulu's Conference Table to Leyte's Mud
10. The Naval Campaign for the Philippines
11. Mahan and the Submariners
12. Dulling the Mighty Blade
13. B-San
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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About the Author

John A. Adams is a retired airline executive and longtime business strategist with an interest in the use of economic principles to analyze history. Trained as a historian, he has extensively researched military strategy and tactics. He lives in Conifers, Colorado.

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"John Adams is one of the most remarkable individuals I have met in the course of my long academic career. His knowledge of recent military doctrine, strategy, and operations, logistics, and tactics is as deep as any of my academic colleagues." Malcolm Muir, author of Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy, 1945-1975 "A very interesting, well-researched, well-written work with fine and fresh analysis of the Pacific War." Eric Osborne, author of The Battle of Heligoland Bight