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Truth and Strategy, Part I

Mar 29th, 2006 | By | Category: Macro Economics
"IF I AM TOLD TO FIGHT the Americans," said Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) to Japanese Premier Fumimaro Konoe in 1940, "I shall run wild for the first six months. I can promise to give them hell. But I have utterly no confidence for the second or third year." Here was Yamamoto, wounded ...read more