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...Japanese Navy was busy with its traditional mission of building and maintaining supply lines, 2) attrition of Japanese strength and additions to U.S. strength, in both naval and merchant vessels, had finally clamped caution on to Japanese helms, 3) the new Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Mineichi Koga, was a careful man, and 4) the flexibility of Allied strategy had the Japs guessing about the best way of defending their home islands...
Some say that Admiral Koga's weakest point is his unfamiliarity with the naval air arm (Yamamoto was an aviator). Apparently he is paying much attention to submarine warfare and is already stepping up a campaign against U.S. supply lines in the Pacific-a thing which the Japanese Navy had neglected, using submarines mostly to attack combat vessels...
...Chinese, whose intelligence about Admiral Koga is probably better than the U.S. Navy's, consider him to be taciturn, scholarly, unpolitical. They say he is "extremely suspicious and careful and lacks Yamamoto's ability to make quick decisions...
...Toward Koga's Home. Admiral Koga must recognize that the Allies are about ready for extensive offensive operations in the Pacific. His reaction to the new Solomons' actions must be complicated by an uncertainty as to what they mean...
...Mineichi Koga knows that he cannot commit large forces to one sector of Japan's huge defensive perimeter until he is sure that a heavier blow will not fall on another sector. He has to hold back until he is sure. He has been holding back quite a bit lately. But some day soon he will have to strike. If he does not, the rest of what Admiral Nimitz said will come explosively true...