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Is secretary of war Stimson whose diaries are now public. It’s completely obvious however why some people refuse to acknowledge these types of things. Most of the wars that the US has engaged in were incited and had literally nothing to do with self defense. War was planned with japan as early as 1906. The war that the US incited with Spain was for the purpose of obtaining west pacific territory (the Philippines) which japan was eyeing in the late 1930’s. People are so gullible.

War Plan Orange (commonly known as Plan Orange or just Orange) refers to a series of United States Joint Army and Navy Board war plans for dealing with a possible war with Japan during the years between the First and Second World Wars.

Informal studies as early as 1906 covered a number of possibilities, from basing at Gibraltar or Singapore[1] (an idea revived by the British before World War II)[2] to "a quick trans-Atlantic dash" to the Pacific.[3] The plan eventually adopted was conceived by Rear Admiral Raymond P. Rodgers in 1911.[4]

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Is secretary of war Stimson whose diaries are now public. It’s completely obvious however why some people refuse to acknowledge these types of things. Most of the wars that the US has engaged in were incited and had literally nothing to do with self defense. War was planned with japan as early as 1906. The war that the US incited with Spain was for the purpose of obtaining west pacific territory (the Philippines) which japan was eyeing in the late 1930’s. People are so gullible.
The military constantly creates plans for wars with various countries...we have a plan to go to war against Canada or the UK. The idea is to be ready for any eventuality.

That there were war games in the Pacific related to an attack on Pearl Harbor or the Panama canal with an Asian power is not indicative that FDR knew the Japanese would attack. That the Japanese were cut off from the supply of US oil or scrap steel, which they needed for their military...you consider provocation. I consider it diplomacy. The Japanese had invaded China and had sunk the USS Panay. Their aggression seems to have been ok with you and none of our business.

You seem to think that the fact that Germany controlled nearly all of Europe and Japan was well on it's way to control Asia and much of the Pacific was not a matter of national defense.
 
The military constantly creates plans for wars with various countries...we have a plan to go to war against Canada or the UK. The idea is to be ready for any eventuality.
I’d like to see those. In the first part of the 20th century, the US wasn’t drawing up war plan contingencies with countries half way around the world. We had only just become a “global power” if you will after inciting a war with Spain to confiscate the Philippines and Guam from them. But keep apologizing.
 
You seem to think that the fact that Germany controlled nearly all of Europe and Japan was well on it's way to control Asia and much of the Pacific was not a matter of national defense.
Not only me, but 80% of Americans at the time!!!!!

Most Americans opposed US involvement in foreign wars, and they were RIGHT!

Like Taft, Hoover was not arguing for pacifism, but rather for war as a defensive last resort. “We may need to go to war again,” the former president wrote, “But that war should be on this hemisphere alone and in the defense of our firesides or our honor. For that alone should we pay the price.”
 
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That there were war games in the Pacific related to an attack on Pearl Harbor or the Panama canal with an Asian power is not indicative that FDR knew the Japanese would attack.
Nice try, but I didn’t say that. I said that the specific exercise (not war game as you like to call it) conducted at Pearl Harbor was to inform the navy on the practicality of stationing the pacific Fleet there. The result was that it wasn’t suitable. This is why the commander of the pacific Fleet in 1941 was outraged when he was ordered to move it there and personally confronted Roosevelt over it.
 
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