2016 5 30 124 Sep. 2016 NO. 5 100006 K712 E19 A 1009-3451 2016 05-0074 - 13 Japan s General Guidelines for War during the Pacific War Zhang Yanru Institute of World History StudiesChinese Academy of Social SciencesBeijing 100006 Abstract During the Pacific Warfor four timesthe Japanese government formulated General Guidelines for Future Wara programmatic document for war guidance. The guidelines chiefly stipulated the goals of the future warand the strategiespolitical and foreign policies to be adopted for the attainment of the war goals. The backgrounds and time nodes of the four documents show that the first one came out when Japan wanted to make active strategic and political planning at the beginning of the war. The other three were passive adjustments in disadvantageous situations. The shifts of the strategic objectives in the documents revealed that during the Pacific WarJapan was experiencing changes in strategy from being active to passivefrom being offensive to defensive and its combat zone was shrinking continuously. The contents of the documents exposed Japan s ambition to build the Great East Asian New Order. But this ambitionwhich was far beyond its comprehensive national strengthdrove it to set unrealistic strategic objectives and to make risky strategic and tactical decisions. Key words Japan the Pacific War General Guidelines for Future War 74
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