Yamamoto and Rommel: war geniuses or blunders?

swampyankee said:

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.

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