Strategic Focus
Shifted doctrine from battleships to carriers.
Fatal Flaw
Plans relied on perfect timing and coordination.
Psychology
Believed in short, decisive, high-risk strikes.
Yamamoto was Harvard-educated and deeply admired American industrial power. He knew Japan could not win a prolonged war.
"I will run wild for six months... then I have no expectation of success."
Appointed to lead Combined Fleet.
Pearl Harbor attack planning.
Complex plan fails at Midway.
Shot down over Bougainville.