![]() However, the closest thing that approximates a thesis could be that Imperial Japanese Navy began the war with a number of excellent and very specialized ships and a highly-trained navy in terms of tactics and doctrine, but as time went on, the IJN ultimately failed to adapt and grasp the changing nature of modern naval warfare which caused it to fall behind the technology and production curve and lose the war of attrition. There isn’t really a defined thesis for either of these books since they cover the individual ship classes with some light discussion on the strategic outcomes of the Pacific War. However, it’s important to note that there are some edits and omissions if you examine these books and the books they’ve been compiled from, which I’ll discuss later in this review. In the case of these two books, what they’ve done is taken the previous titles on aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines and put them into their respective books for each navy. Most of these books aren’t more than 100 pages in length. One thing to note about Osprey is that they publish an assortment of very thin paperback titles related to all manner of military history topics. ![]() They both follow the same basic organization which is as follows: Published in 2013 ( Imperial Japanese Navy) and 2021 ( United States Navy), these books are edited compilations of previously individually published Osprey titles. ![]()
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