war plan definition
war plan means the war plan against Japan. That Japan was considered the most likely enemy throughout the inter-war period is evident in General Board hearings on new types of warships, in which the question “how will this ship operate in the Or- ange war” almost always arises. However, some war games, including some “big games,” examined a Red-Blue scenario: war against the United Kingdom. A reader gains the im- pression that no one seriously believed that such a war could break out.33 The usual stated cause for such a war was economic rivalry, which in the 1930s was widely believed to have triggered World War I. By way of contrast, Blue-Orange wars were generally triggered by U.S. resistance (via the “Open Door” policy in China) to a Japanese attempt to gain control of the Far East.