"Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku was the defining Japanese naval commander of World War II. He planned and executed the daring pre-emptive strike on Pearl Harbor that damaged the US Pacific Fleet and ushered in the Pacific War, and commanded the Japanese Combined Fleet until his death …
"Drawing on documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did. The book focuses not only on the battlefield level, but also provides a perspective from the military high command, government, and non-c…
In war, competing systems introduce new technological means to gain advantage. Greater technological complexity, however, creates greater uncertainty-due not only to technical problems but also to unintended consequences when new technology is applied within the chaotic environm…