Basically the strategy of Japan seems to be to destroy the
U.S. fleet in the Pacific so that they can drive them out of the
Phillipines and then destroy the U.S. bases in the Hawaiian islands
and perhaps establish a few there themselves so that the U.S. would
require a long journey without resupply to reach Japan and east Asia.
One question about execution might have been whether to attack both
Midway and Pearl Harbor simultaneously. If the question, however, is
one of exerting maximum damage on resources in a first strike, how
feasible would it have been to sail a few carrier groups entirely
across the Pacific and attack the West Coast and Panama without being
detected before attacking?
If the purpose of the two missions were to 1. Destroy the Panama
Canal, and 2., to destroy as many naval construction ****pyards and as
many ****ps and aircraft as possible before sailing away, could the
Japanese navy have been more successful at the goal of destroying the
U.S. navy in the Pacific and getting a more complete retreat from the
Phillipines with a more long distance assault than that on Hawaii?
