Yamamoto and Rommel: war geniuses or blunders?

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Every time any WWII general is mentioned, Montgomery or Patton must be mentioned.

Yamamoto probably best understood the US of the Japanese military leaders; he seems to have been the only one to have understood that a long naval war is as much a test of industry as of warriors. What he -- and the remainder of the Japanese military establishment failed to understand -- is how Americans, with nothing evident as a "warrior culture" were much tougher than the Japanese expectations.

True, and to be fair, expecting Yamamoto to be able to beat the US in the Pacific was like trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat....