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To: Strac6
It is ascribed to Gensui Marshall Admiral (equivalent to US Fleet Admiral/General of the Army 5 stars) Isoroku Yamamoto, overall commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy, though some historians doubt he said it.
8 posted on 10/25/2016 9:14:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was he the man that worried that the attack on Pearl Harbor would only “awaken the sleeping tiger?”


10 posted on 10/25/2016 10:44:07 PM PDT by Strac6 (Everything Depends On Defeating Hillary in November. Everything else is minor compared to that!)
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