It makes sense to anyone who realizes that Pearl Harbor was stupid as fuck if Japan planned an attack. Sure Hawaii was the closest base of operations but they weren’t nearly as large as the San Diego naval base that ended up deploying pretty much just as fast as Hawaii would’ve. Not to mention many of the boats weren’t even damaged beyond repair and the counterattack was pretty effective. Also how fucking retarded can Japan be to make an attack on a major world power and be like: “yep, now we wait for them to come here” Japan wasn’t even capable of making even a tiny assault on US mainland so why the fuck would they even go through with it? Not to mention their allies were too busy getting fucked in Europe to care
A lot of historians think the real failure of Pearl Harbor was to not concentrate on the oil reserves. America had enough oil stockpiled on Hawaii to last almost to the end of the war. Without fuel the pacific fleet would have been forced to withdraw back to California and most of 1942-43 would have been spent stockpiling at Hawaii to support offensive operations again.
It makes sense to anyone who realizes that Pearl Harbor was stupid as fuck if Japan planned an attack. Sure Hawaii was the closest base of operations but they weren’t nearly as large as the San Diego naval base that ended up deploying pretty much just as fast as Hawaii would’ve. Not to mention many of the boats weren’t even damaged beyond repair and the counterattack was pretty effective. Also how fucking retarded can Japan be to make an attack on a major world power and be like: “yep, now we wait for them to come here” Japan wasn’t even capable of making even a tiny assault on US mainland so why the fuck would they even go through with it? Not to mention their allies were too busy getting fucked in Europe to care
A lot of historians think the real failure of Pearl Harbor was to not concentrate on the oil reserves. America had enough oil stockpiled on Hawaii to last almost to the end of the war. Without fuel the pacific fleet would have been forced to withdraw back to California and most of 1942-43 would have been spent stockpiling at Hawaii to support offensive operations again.