Frases de Isoroku Yamamoto

Isoroku Yamamoto fue un marino y político japonés, que fungió con el rango de almirante como el comandante en jefe de la Flota Combinada de la Armada Imperial Japonesa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el apartado político ocupó el puesto de viceministro de Marina entre 1936 y 1939.

Considerado uno de los grandes estrategas de la historia de la Armada Imperial, llevó a cabo una reforma radical de la misma en cuanto al poder aéreo y su proyección a la mar.[1]​ Bajo su comandancia los primeros años en la Guerra del Pacífico —a la cual se había opuesto desde el principio—, fue el encargado de idear y planificar el exitoso ataque a Pearl Harbor, además de lograr los éxitos más notables. Todo ello le costaría la vida en una emboscada mientras volaba en un vuelo de itinerario en una misión de alto secreto.

✵ 4. abril 1884 – 18. abril 1943
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Frases célebres de Isoroku Yamamoto

“En los primeros seis a doce meses de una guerra con los Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña voy a correr salvajemente y lograr la victoria en victoria. Pero entonces, si la guerra continúa después de eso, no tengo ninguna expectativa de éxito.”

Declaración de ministro del gabinete japonés Shigeharu Matsumoto y el primer ministro japonés Fumimaro Konoe, citado en The American War With Japan (1985) de Ronald Spector.

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“Me temo que hemos despertado a un gigante dormido. Su respuesta será terrorífica.”

The Reluctant Admiral (1979) por Hiroyuki Agawa

Isoroku Yamamoto: Frases en inglés

“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Statement made after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Yamamoto as portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, this is one of the most quoted remarks attributed to him. Though it is thought that it summarizes his sentiments well, a definite source for this quote has never been provided. William Safire wrote that there is no printed evidence to support this quote. Safire's Political Dictionary, page 666. http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA666 For more information see the Wikipedia article "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote".
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“In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”

Statement to Japanese cabinet minister Shigeharu Matsumoto and Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoe, as quoted in Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan (1985) by Ronald Spector. This remark would later prove prophetic; precisely six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy would suffer a major defeat at the Battle of Midway, from which it never recovered.

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

It has been declared this attribution is "unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan’s wartime fleet ever saying it.", according to source Brooks Jackson in "Misquoting Yamamoto" at Factcheck.org (11 May 2009) http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/misquoting-yamamoto/, which cites source Donald M. Goldstein, sometimes called "the dean of Pearl Harbor historians", writing "I have never seen it in writing. It has been attributed to the Prange files [the files of the late Gordon W. Prange, chief historian on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur] but no one had ever seen it or cited it from where they got it."
Misattributed

“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.”

As quoted in At Dawn We Slept (1981) by Gordon W. Prange, p. 11; this quote was stated in a letter to Ryoichi Sasakawa prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Minus the last sentence, it was taken out of context and interpreted in the U.S. as a boast that Japan would conquer the entire contiguous United States. The omitted sentence showed Yamamoto's counsel of caution towards a war that would cost Japan dearly.

“The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.”

Statement in opposition of the planned construction of the Yamato class battleships, as quoted in Scraps of paper: the disarmament treaties between the world wars (1989) by Harlow A. Hyde. In this statement, Yamamoto implies that even the most powerful battleships can be sunk by a huge swarm of carrier planes. This remark also proved prophetic as both Yamato and Musashi would be sunk by overwhelming air attacks.

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