Why did Yamamota want to go against the Army?

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A car stops at a building and Yamamoto gets out as he is greeted by Yamaguchi. They talk about Nagumo:

Yamaguchi: Someday that old fool will make an even bigger mistake.

Yamamoto: None of that talk inside. We must be united against the Army.

Yamaguchi: I'm not Nagumo.



Best Answer

Inter-service rivalry is fairly common around the world - though it is usually a simple case of services/units believing themselves to be the best.

However, a long standing historical narrative has been that the rivalry between the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was particularly egregious and deep. It began almost immediately at their inception in 1868 - mainly as a fight over funding and resources, which came to a head in the 1920s. The Navy wanted more, larger ships - which are costly. The Army was worried they'd be underresourced - Japan wasn't the powerful economy it became after WWII.

The 1930s saw the Army gain much prestige with the invasion into China. A continuing mainland invasion would reduce the importance of the Navy, and threaten their funding.

The rivalry simply worsened all the way to the end of the war in 1945.




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Why did Japan choose to go to war?

Faced with severe shortages of oil and other natural resources and driven by the ambition to displace the United States as the dominant Pacific power, Japan decided to attack the United States and British forces in Asia and seize the resources of Southeast Asia.

Why did Yamamoto attack Pearl Harbor?

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto spent months planning an attack that aimed to destroy the Pacific Fleet and destroy morale in the U.S. Navy, so that it would not be able to fight back as Japanese forces began to advance on targets across the South Pacific.

Who masterminded the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Isoroku YamamotoBattles/warsRusso-Japanese War Battle of Tsushima ( WIA ) World War II Pacific War Attack on Pearl Harbor Operation MI New Guinea campaign Operation I-Go Solomon Islands campaign Guadalcanal campaign Operation Ke Operation I-Go Operation Vengeance \u202014 more rows

What caused the Battle of Midway to happen?

Japan's Ambitions in the Pacific Hoping to replicate the success of the Pearl Harbor attack, Yamamoto decided to seek out and crush the rest of the U.S. Pacific fleet with a surprise attack aimed at the Allied base at Midway Island.



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