“Execute against Japan”: The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

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“ . . . until now how the Navy managed to instantaneously move from the overt legal restrictions of the naval arms treaties that bound submarines to the cruiser rules of the eighteenth century to a declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan instantly after the attack on Pearl Harbor has never been explained. Lieutenant Holwitt has dissected this process and has created a compelling story of who did what, when, and to whom.”—The Submarine Review

“Execute against Japan must be required reading for naval officers (especially in submarine wardrooms), in addition to for somebody thinking about history, policy, or international law.”—Adm. James P. Wisecup, President, US Naval War College (for Naval War College Review)

“Even if the policy of unrestricted air and submarine warfare proved crucial to the Pacific war’s course, this splendid work is the first comprehensive account of its origins—illustrating that historians have in no way exhausted questions about this conflict.”—World War II Magazine

“US Navy submarine officer Joel Ira Holwitt has performed an impressive feat with this book. . . . Holwitt is to be commended for not shying away from moral judgments . . . This can be a superb book that fully explains how the US came to adopt a strategy regarded by many as illegal and tantamount to ‘terror’.”—Military Review

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