Sarah Paine

And it was this combination of obedience and ferocity that made the Japanese so formidable.

Okay, this brings me to another value that's emphasized in Bushido, willpower, back to Yamamoto.

There is nothing that cannot be done.

The way of the samurai is in desperateness.

Simply become insane and desperate and it'll somehow work out for you.

One can accomplish any feat.

Think of Pearl Harbor.

And this emphasis on willpower and just trying harder, it denigrates strategy.

And here you see a picture of the supreme example of honor and loyalty and willpower, and they're kamikaze pilots.

But if this is what you're doing, you're denigrating strategy.

And here Yamamoto is me talking about tactics, but it has operational and strategic implications.

He says, learning such things as military tactics is useless.

The way of the samurai is one of immediacy

And it is best to dash in headlong.

If one were informed of military tactics, he would have many doubts.

So the idea is if you think about these things in peacetime, you'll start hesitating in wartime.

It won't work out for you if you do this.

During times of peace, when listening to the stories of battle, we should never say, in facing such a situation, what would a person do?

Well, so much for my job at the Naval War College.

So much for the case studies.