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Naval strategists outside the U. S. are inclined to think that Fleet Problem No. 14 is largely academic as a simulation of what a Japanese-American war would actually bring. Few can visualize a Japanese fleet capturing and holding Hawaii as a base after steaming 3,374 mi. from Yokosuka, much less driving on from there another 2,100 mi. to reach the U. S. and the teeth of a potent Battle Force. The Pacific seems too large and bases too far apart for such action...
...been my aim to keep well within the bounds of reasonable possibility and not to sacrifice reality for dramatic effect. It would have been easy, for example, to bring the Japanese battle fleet to Hawaii or even to the American seaboard. I might even have conveyed whole Japanese Army corps to San Francisco and allowed them to overrun the Pacific slope. But to do so would have been to expose the narrative to the well-merited ridicule of informed critics...
Threatened with domestic revolution Japan turns to a foreign war to save the empire. A U. S. concession in China supplies the tinder. Before war is declared a huge Japanese freighter explodes in Culebra Cut, blocking the Panama Canal for months. A Japanese fleet quickly falls on the Philippines, annihilates the U. S. Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from...
...unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits, losing five capital ships to two for the U. S. With the enemy fleet swept from the sea the U. S. soon...
...Gesture." In the big Pacific, two can play as well as fight. Last month Japan revealed that she was at work planning naval maneuvers that match Fleet Problem No. 14 in size and importance, send cold chills down the spines of U. S. strategists. The Japanese Grand Fleet, Naval Minister Osumi announced, is going "southward of the islands composing the territory of The Empire" in August instead of October. This statement was taken to mean that battle practice will be held among the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event...