[buwaya]

The Asiatic Fleet was depending on the submarines as its main striking force. This was probably unrealistic, but is everything had gone as well as possible they may have made it expensive for the IJN. They failed badly, mainly due to poor training and the scandalous state of the torpedoes.
Both problems were the fruit of a dysfunctional bureaucracy in that branch.

[fso301]

This was probably unrealistic, but is everything had gone as well as possible they may have made it expensive for the IJN.

Had the been at sea around Luzon on 12/8, who knows what several of them might have been able to tag.

They failed badly, mainly due to poor training and the scandalous state of the torpedoes.

One has to add poor naval leadership.

[ANGGAPO]

That comment was unfair. We were in a two ocean war with nothing to fight it with. The military had a lot of good people, but not enough of them. Many of the men that were available were not qualified for the job that they now found themselves in. Our country was flat on it's back because of our political structure.