Yama moto is one of those people that allows you to jump several steps in the normal linear technological development. Yama moto doesn't see aircraft carriers as something that aids the strike force. He sees the planes from the carriers themselves as sinking the enemy' ships. But not only is this a revolutionary and controversial idea without the data to really backt think of what a gamble it is.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...