[allmendream]

Where was our Pacific fleet based in 1914?

Either way, your comment was incorrect that it was a minor target at that time. It was a Naval Shipyard as of 1908, thus a major target, if not THE major target.

“if you can name a target, a military target, then name the system.”

[skeeter]

San Diego and later San Pedro.

I'll say it once more & then I'll drop it... you said the Japanese were encouraged to attack our fleet at Pearl Harbor during WWI, which was impossible because our fleet was not there at the time.

I'm not saying its your error, I'm just saying our fleet was not there.

[skeeter]

BTW Japan was a member of the Entente powers from August 1914, when the British were urging them to attack German possessions in the Pacific.