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    The Decisive Battle Doctrine (艦隊決戦, Kantai Kessen, "naval fleet decisive battle") was a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to...
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    Combined Fleet (redirect from Rengō Kantai)
    line of battle showdown with an equivalent enemy battleship fleet (Kantai Kessen). The 2nd Fleet was a fast, mobile strike force with armored cruisers...
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    designed in accordance with the prevailing Japanese naval strategy of Kantai Kessen, the Decisive Battle Doctrine, which presupposed Japan would win a war...
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    across the Pacific until the Japanese Navy engaged it in a climactic Kantai Kessen ("decisive battle") in the northern Philippine Sea (between the Ryukyu...
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  • aircraft assisting in the defense. The plan was intended to create the Kantai Kessen, one final battle that would devastate the American forces and force...
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    United States possessed, was completely impossible, a rebuff to the Kantai Kessen Decisive Battle Doctrine of those who thought that winning a single...
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  • to declare fight to the death Fear of repercussions Defeat in detail Kantai Kessen Swarming (military) Fabian strategy (antithesis) J. Nagl, (2005), p...
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    considered the First Air Fleet an integral component in the Combined Fleet's Kantai Kessen or "decisive battle" task force centered on battleships. Akagi was designated...
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  • episodes from the alternate history OVA series Konpeki no Kantai and Kyokujitsu no Kantai, respectively known as the Deep Blue Fleet and Fleet of the...
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  • unrefined Tarakan Island crude oil and await execution of the planned Kantai Kessen ("decisive battle") known as Operation A-GO. When American carrier strikes...
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  • battle" of Mahan, and of Japanese planning. In accordance with the Kantai Kessen naval strategy, the Imperial Japanese Navy developed its own plan that...
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  • United States would be decided by a single decisive naval battle or Kantai Kessen. This great naval clash would be determined by the big guns aboard battleships...
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  • operations were chiefly to be won by decisive battles and blockade. Kantai Kessen Pyrrhic victory Strategic victory Tactical victory Edward Shepherd Creasy...
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    likely adversaries. Most importantly, the latter, in the form of the Kantai Kessen or Decisive Battle Doctrine, a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial...
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    Japanese home islands, the IJN decided it was time for the long-awaited Kantai Kessen (decisive battle). Toyoda immediately ordered a fleet-based counterattack...
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  • Battle of Tsushima validated the doctrine of the "decisive victory", or kantai kessen as stipulated by naval theorists such as Alfred Thayer Mahan and Satō...
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    This was in conflict with Japan's doctrine of "decisive battle" (艦隊決戦, Kantai kessen, which did not require long range), in which IJN would allow the US...
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    It has been argued that the IJN's pursuit of the "decisive battle" (Kantai Kessen) contributed to Imperial Japan's defeat in World War II, because the...
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    had been seeking to engage the Americans in a decisive battle, the Kantai Kessen, that would enable them to win the war. Biak was not far from major...
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    Royal Navy in the Western Pacific Ocean. The group advocated for the kantai kessen, a doctrine specifying a need for larger warships and larger-caliber...
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  • Pacific, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) pursued a strate strategy of Kantai Kessen - winning a decisive battle at the beginning of a short war, after which...
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  • Chousei Kantai Sazer-X (超星艦隊セイザーX, Chōsei Kantai Seizā Ekkusu) translated as Super Star Fleet Sazer-X is a tokusatsu superhero TV series produced by Toho...
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    held in reserve waiting for the "decisive battle" under the Japanese kantai kessen doctrine, so the transfer meant that Shimizu was removed from front...
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    assets could operate in the Western Pacific. Japanese naval strategy ('Kantai Kessen') was built around the idea that this would present them with an opportunity...
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    Academy, continuing to influence its curriculum heavily towards the kantai kessen theory which he had helped create. He also sat on the Board of Inquiry...
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    Fleet under Admiral Takeo Kurita in July 1943. A strong believer in the Kantai kessen naval doctrine of a decisive battle, Koyanagi criticized the battle...
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    Dairenji in Tokyo Ravens, Nagato-class, Sendai-class, Kuma, Tama, Shimakaze in Kantai Collection, Cocoa Hoto in Is the Order a Rabbit?, Ran Mitake in BanG Dream...
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    Musées Nationaux Cryo Interactive Unreleased 1999 Unreleased Chinmoku no Kantai Opera House Kodansha September 28, 2000 Unreleased Unreleased Chō Aniki:...
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  •  1994 (1994-08-05) 19 "Invincible Space Pirate" Transliteration: "Muteki no Kaizoku Kantai" (Japanese: 無敵の海賊艦隊) August 12, 1994 (1994-08-12) 20 "Hairbreadth Escape...
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    the Round Capcom Capcom June 10, 1994 April 1994 Unreleased Konpeki no Kantai Access Angel November 2, 1995 Unreleased Unreleased Kouryaku Casino Bar...
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