Sink ten ships and we win the war! -- Initial Japanese strategic choices -- Pearl Harbor -- Yamamoto defies Mahan -- Guadalcanal -- Central versus South Pacific -- Two prongs divide the fleet -- Decisive combat in the Marianas -- From Honolulu's Conference Table to Leyte's Mud -- The naval campaign for the Philippines -- Mahan and the submariners -- Dulling the mighty blade -- B-San
Summary
Would the doctrine of one of history's great naval strategists have stood the test of World War II in the Pacific?
