melancholygiant

But they weren't.

Had Admiral Nagumo taken the overwhelming advantage he had created for the Japanese Navy and hunted them down, it would have worked. With the destruction of the British Navy the Japanese Navy would have had the run of the Pacific for at least another year, probably more.

The official Japanese strategy was to defeat the enemy in a single decisive battle (see Russo-Japanese War). Despite receiving confirmed reports that no American carriers had been hit, much less sunk, Nagumo thought he had accomplished this, and was concerned about being so far away from supply, so turned around and headed home. Yamamoto wanted to stay and go after the carriers, but, at the time, Nagumo was his superior so could not.

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william the wierd

The Carriers had been sent out to avoid probable attack. The battleships were left because analysis of the Port Arthur attack a third of a century earlier indicated Japanese Admirals were logistical idiots. We did survive the loss of the battleships, we would probably have survived the loss of the carriers but replacing and replenishing the tank farm so the Fleet could get beyond Pearl was a multi-year task. With better targeting of the immobile logistical support at Pearl Harbor Japan would have been unopposed until 1943, maybe even 45 with effective harassment of the supply convoys and 44 as the probable start date of a counterattack. That is why CINCPAC and the CNO were forced to retire rather than being shot to encourage the others. If they had emptied the Harbor they would have been shot for leaving the Japanese bombers no other target but the supply train, which then would have been the main target.

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12-7-41=Revelation 12vs 7
There was war in heaven,while there was world war on earth,now we are heading to final judgement in heaven and on earth

Goldwater

The events predicted and described in the book of revelation were meant for the Roman Empire. Furthermore that was blind luck too. Revelation is a pop novel just like all other books found in the New Testament. The Jesus novel was such a successful best seller because Jesus publicized it so well, it lead to all the other novels that make up the Bible and every last one of them was a best seller. The Bible was as popular then as Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings are now.

The Roman Catholic church loves Revelations because they love using fear of going to hell to control people. If thier is a God, which I think thier might be, he may not even have heard of the Bible. Almost in the same we we can't know what a beetle is thinking

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Did you include that the Central Banks funded all sides?

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