The law of enemy combatants

Isoruku Yamamoto was 59 years old when he died in April of 1943. For the pre­vi­ous four years he had served as com­man­der in chief of the com­bined fleet of Japan. In that capac­ity he had devel­oped a plan to make a pre-emptive strike on the United States to draw down Amer­i­can naval power. He planned and led the attack on Pearl Har­bor in Decem­ber 1941 in which 2,402 men were killed– the worst attack ever on Amer­i­can soil by a for­eign force. Amer­i­cans ral­lied to a com­mon cause, rebuilt and fought back.