Conflicting currents
Subtitle: Japan and the United States in the Pacific
By: Williamson Murray, Tomoyuki Ishizu, editors.
Contributors: Murray, Williamson.; Ishizu, Tomoyuki.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313351594; 9780313351600
Subjects: Strategy -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan; Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States; Pacific Area -- Strategic aspects; United States -- Relations -- Pacific Area; Pacific Area -- Relations -- United States; Japan -- Relations -- Pacific Area; Pacific Area -- Relations -- Japan; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Japan and the United States / Williamson Murray and Tomoyuki Ishizu; title: American strategic planning, 1919-1939 : from innocence to improvisation / F.G. Hoffman; title: The strategy of the maritime nation : from Yukichi Fukuzawa to Shigeru Yoshida / Kitaoka Shinichi; title: The quest for   international justice and Asianism in a "New order in East Asia" : Fumimaro Konoe and his vision of the world / Shoji Jun'Ichiro; title: Total war, modernism, and the final war with the United States : Ishiwara Kanji and his view on war and on grand and military strategy / Tomoyuki Ishizu; title: American strategy and leadership in World War II : the problem of a two-front strategy / Williamson Murray; title: Diplomatic strategy of a defeated nation : Yoshida Shigeru and his successors / Hiroshi Nakanishi; title: A strategy by accident : U.S. policy in the Cold War, 1945-1972 / Richard Hart Sinnreich; title: The "basic defense force concept" as strategy / Narushige Michishita.