In reading history I though Yamamoto’s remarks were telling. He said “I’m afraid we’ve woken a sleeping giant” and the second thing was “In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”
” I fear I have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible wrath “ I think that’s the full line. I may have paraphrased it a bit.