Part I. The Battle of the Coral Sea
JAPANESE STRATEGY
Japan started the war in Asia and in the Pacific to establish and protect a "New Order" in Asia.[2] In "Phase I" of the war, the "operational objective" of the Imperial Fleet, in the words of Combined Fleet Secret Order Number One, issued on 1 November 1941, was expressed as follows: "... by ejecting British and American strength from the Netherlands Indies and the Philippines, to establish a policy of autonomous self-sufficiency and economic independence."[3] Willmott, in the same vein, asserts that
...of all the major combatants Japan alone did not aspire to a final victory.... Japan's goal was to secure a negotiated peace by limiting and winning the conflict she began ... in 1941. She aimed ...
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