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's War Plan Orange, 1897-1941: The Blue Thrust Through The Pacific

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Synopsis 2 In Edward Miller’s War Plan Orange, 1897–1941: The Blue Thrust Through the Pacific essay I have learned about the United States preparation and strategy of “Plan Orange”. Orange being the code name for the Japanese plan of war well before war had even started. The plan was first drawn up when president Roosevelt was looking for what our strategy would be if we were to go to war with Japan as a result of “Japan’s military strength and the tensions between the two countries over Japanese immigration to the United States” The plan was drawn up by the joint Army and Navy Board and later refined by the Navy’s General Board. With Japan being a remote island group and “dependent on imports” the main question became “how to get its (United States) navy over there” ? From there came two different philosophies, one being thrusters and the other being called cautionaries. Thrusters looking for a much quicker and forceful attack to push naval forces across the Pacific. On the other end of the spectrum cautionaries, who wanted to …show more content…

The first period being around 1906. The plan started out as a three phase war. Japan would make a strong southern attack, then the fleet would sail down to Manila and rescue troops and build an advanced base and lastly in the third phase the United States would impose a tight blockade. In the second period the plan moved more towards the cautionaries side with them reinstating the island hopping campaign. In the third period starting in 1934 where the island hopping campaigned was enhanced and dubbed the path the “Royal Road” . In the fifth period there was five rainbow plans created each designated their own color. In period six, 1941, after the Pearl Harbor attack Nimitz took control and lead a raid on the Marshall Islands. General MacArthur constructed a base in the Philippines. The United States continued on with the plan and eventually ended the war with atomic

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