Sarah Paine

I project me and mirror image on you.

And that doesn't work so well.

Okay, if I'm not supposed to generalize on the basis of my experience, what am I supposed to do instead?

And I'm going to get at this problem today, how you analyze the other side of the tennis court net by looking at Japanese behavior in the 30s and 40s.

But the method of analysis I'm using, you could apply to anyone you want.

You want to think about Russians today or whatever, you can apply it that way.

So culture, it's important, but it's as amorphous as it is important.

For instance, if I'm going to try to figure out the defining characteristics of another culture, it would be difficult to figure out what the list is of all the different things I would need to look at.

And even if I could come up with that list,

Still, how would I figure out how that would work in something like warfare?

Hard to know.

But the difficulty of the problem doesn't make it go away.

And so we're gonna look at it today, and we're gonna look at Japanese theorists.

and belief systems, and that if you believe these things, how this influences your practice.

Tojo Hideki said in December 1st, 1941, that our country stands on the threshold of glory or oblivion.

He got that right.

And he's in an imperial conference where he is confirming with Hirohito that Pearl Harbor is gonna be a go.

But he felt that Japan really needed to do something rather than being ground down, being passive.

And here is Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku,

who was the man who came up with the operational plan for Pearl Harbor.