Sarah Paine

On that infamous day in December 41, it wasn't just Pearl Harbor, that's Team America focusing only on Team America.

The Japanese attack all across the Pacific that day.

Okay, now what?

China had never been able to threaten the Japanese home islands while the United States, here the United States was totally isolationist.

Most Americans couldn't find Japan on the map.

Well, after Pearl Harbor, they sure could.

and suddenly the United States isn't isolationist anymore and they're coming to get the Japanese.

So you can see the samurai values in operation here.

Just try harder, more dosages of willpower, eventually you'll win or you'll die trying.

Okay.

Another operational preference that you can see, which is part of the surprise or preemptive attacks, and this is how Japan began all of its wars.

The first Sino-Japanese War and the second Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War and the Pacific War, this is how all of them begin.

And finally, Miyamoto offers some advice on how you break the enemy willpower.

And in this case, you've already won conventionally.

but they're waging an insurgency against you.

I'm modernizing the terminology.

And the idea is you want a psychological victory.

You want them just to quit.

And somehow you're gonna break their will to resist.

And I suspect this is what the Japanese thought they were doing.