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Isoroku Yamamoto

Even though there wasn’t much damage, it’s a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

I’m against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

The example afforded before the Great War by Germany – which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe – suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto

I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

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