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[[underline]] ASSUMED STATE OF WAR [[/underline]]

Assuming a state of war to be impending and with the mission of the Hawaiian Department to be the holding of the Island of Oahu for four months before the arrival of supporting troops, let us estimate what the action of Japan will be. Japan knows that she owes her existence to her military power, she knows that without the application of the latest developments in the art of war she cannot hope to prevail against a great power like the United States, any more than she did against Russia, had she, Japan, still used the organization and methods of her traditional military policy and system. She knows full well that the United States will probably enter the next war with the methods and weapons of the former war, and will therefore, offer the enticing morsel which all nations

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