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Would it have been possible for the US to strike first against Japan in a similar way as the Pearl Harbor Attack? Could they have attacked the Combined Japanese Fleet in it's home port? How could this have changed the war? Ive always thought about that possibility. I saw it in the C.S.A. mockumentary about how the CSA striked first against Japan and i'm wondering if in the otl before the pod Roosevelt would have approven such a move. Or would the strong isolationist movement keep the United States from Launching such a strike? And would the US Pacific fleet been capable of such a move because if i remember my history correctly at Pearl Harbor the USPacFleet only consisted of

8 Battleships
5 Aircraft Carriers (Hornet, Enterprise, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Lexington)
20 Destroyers
30 plus escorts-mixed with cruisers
and about a dozen submarines with dozens of Auxillary ships.

Even with that kind of force what kind of motivation the US would need to strike against Japan?
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