Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War Between the United States and Japan

Henry Eccles, in classic studies on logistics, describes the dynamics of strategic procurement in the supply chain stretching from home countries to military theatres of operations. Naval authorities and industrialists concerned with Japanese aggression before and after Pearl Harbor looked towards developing shipbuilding capacity on North America’s Pacific Coast. The region turned into a volume producer of merchant vessels, warships and auxiliaries destined for service in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Shipbuilding involved four broad categories of companies in the United States and Canada that enabled the tremendous production effort.

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Prelude to Pearl Harbor. The United States Navy and the Far East, 1921-1931

International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis ◽

10.2307/40198704 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 92

Author(s):

John P. Campbell ◽

Gerald E. Wheeler

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United States Navy ◽

Far East ◽

The United States ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

The Far East

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The Japanese Invasion

Jazz in China ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496817990.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 67-78

Author(s):

Eugene Marlow

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

Manifest Destiny ◽

The United States ◽

The Philippines ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

World War ◽

Prisoner Of War ◽

Internment Camps

During World War II, the Japanese constructed prisoner of war camps in fifteen countries, including China. These camps numbered approximately 240. The Japanese—whose attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the United States into World War II— saw their global role as manifest destiny, particularly with respect to China. Militarist Japan's attempt to conquer China began by seizing Manchuria in 1931 and became a full-fledged invasion from 1937 [when they attacked Shanghai] to 1945. This chapters shows that American jazz musicians—all of whom were playing in Shanghai—were not immune to the Japanese invasion and occupation. Some landed in internment camps in China and the Philippines.

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A Clash of Spacepowers

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474450485.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 228-270

Author(s):

Bleddyn E. Bowen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United States Of America ◽

The United States ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

Space Systems ◽

Long Distance ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Critical Moment ◽

Illustrative Application

Chapter 6’s illustrative application of the theory demonstrates how the propositions are instructive when critically applied a Taiwan war scenario. In this case, it demonstrates how spacepower can influence terrestrial considerations for battle, in particular with long-distance precision-strike warfare, or ‘anti-access/area denial’ (A2/AD) warfare in current military jargon. Two contrasting strategies are critiqued in the case study as equally valid possibilities – the all-out first strike ‘Space Pearl Harbor’ strategy and ‘Counterspace-in-Being’ strategy of keeping space strikes in reserve for a critical moment. These strategies are two possible options for both the United States of America and People’s Republic of China, with Taiwan also having many opportunities of its own to resist Chinese invasion from the mainland. Projecting support from celestial communications down to Earth from the cosmic coastline changes the calculations of concentration and dispersal for military forces on Earth, and understanding the thorny questions of how and when to strike against space systems is aided by an understanding of all seven propositions.

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Wartime Rationing and Governmental Organization

American Political Science Review ◽

10.2307/1949657 ◽

1945 ◽

Vol 39 (6) ◽

pp. 1089-1106 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul M. O'Leary

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Production Management ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Late Summer ◽

The United States ◽

Price Control ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

Governmental Organization ◽

Control Distribution ◽

The Impact

Prior to Pearl Harbor, few Americans had given any serious and sustained thought to rationing as a form of wartime economic control. The United States was felt to be a land of chronic surplus in which rationing had no place. To be sure, certain industrial raw materials had become scarce under the impact of the defense program early in 1941, and had been subjected to priorities control by the Office of Production Management. But rationing of consumers' goods was not taken very seriously. Mr. Ickes' East Coast gasoline “shortage” of the late summer and early fall of 1941 had evaporated quickly. There were, of course, a few bright young men in the back rooms of Leon Henderson's O.P.A. who knew that strict wartime price control of consumers' goods would eventually necessitate rationing, price increases not being permitted to control distribution of relatively scarce goods. But even in the O.P.A. the immediate pressure of other duties, principally the control of prices of basic raw materials and the preparation of a price control act then being considered by Congress, prevented the creation of any real rationing organization. Pearl Harbor found the United States with no rationing plans, no rationing organization, and no real appreciation of the indispensability of rationing in a genuine all-out war effort.

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The Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War Between the United States and Japan

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1848495 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 617

Author(s):

Edwin O. Reischauer ◽

Herbert Feis

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

The Road

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The Pursuit of Isolationism in the United States Senate from Versailles to Pearl Harbor

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1856317 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 89 (3) ◽

pp. 882

Author(s):

Ernest C. Bolt ◽

Thomas N. Guinsburg

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

United States Senate ◽

Pearl Harbor

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Psychology, Context, and the Risk of Genocide

10.1093/oso/9780190638238.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

George R. Mastroianni

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Pearl Harbor ◽

Japanese Americans ◽

Japanese American ◽

Psychological Conditions ◽

Predisposing Conditions

Chapter 11 compares the attitudes of some Americans toward Japanese and Japanese Americans in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor with German attitudes toward Jews. Theories of genocide generally posit predisposing psychological conditions and then examine instances of genocide to confirm whether or not those predisposing conditions were present. The case of the Japanese American confinements offers an opportunity to examine a case in which at least some of the suspected predisposing conditions were present but genocide did not follow. This suggests that there were significant differences between America and Germany in the intensity and penetration of anti-Japanese and anti-Semitic attitudes, respectively, and also that important legal and political safeguards against minority mistreatment that were compromised in Germany remained at least partially intact in the United States.

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