> Midway was a very unique battle. I’m not sure how much it can teach China aside from “make sure you break the enemy’’s encryption”. <
I’m thinking Midway also taught the value of distance, as in strike from a distance. Admiral Yamamoto brought a number of battleships with him. But the Americans wouldn’t get drawn into a surface action. They kept their distance.
The battleship force was primarily to provide gunfire support to the Japanese Naval Infantry landing force.
And Yamamoto also was reluctant to put his battleships in action with the US Navy still having one or two carriers to the Japanese no carriers. Thus he learned the lesson of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, as well as the sinking of the US battleships at Pearl Harbor.