Reflections On Maritime History

In 1925, a British journalist and naval expert by the name of Hector Bywater had already predicted what was to come years down the road in his book The Great Pacific War — In fact, he was the first person to predict that the United States and Japan would later fight each other. In his writing, he talked about how Japan would firstly invade Manchuria, Formosa and Korea before springing a surprise explosion in the Panama Canal .

What was deemed fictitious became reality when the Second World War happened, triggered by friction around the Philippine Straits as well as other…