The pacific war "Victory" through "Annihilation" : two theories of naval warfare in collision.

• Main Author: Karthigesu Paranjothi.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14473
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this essay I will look at the guiding concepts of the US and Japanese Navies and how these influenced their thinking, their armaments and their final confrontation in the Pacific War. Can the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) line of action and eventual at the hands of the US fleet be explained by r...