Outcome
Actual events were very close to the final plan. Carrier battles overshadowed surface action, but the "leapfrog" campaign was very much as anticipated.
The Imperial Japanese Navy, obsessed with the "decisive battle", ignored the vital need for defense against submarines. Germany and the US demonstrated the need for ASW with their submarine campaigns against Allied and Japanese merchant shipping respectively. The American campaign ultimately choked Japan's industrial production and paralyzed her navy. Japan also notably failed to institute an anti-commerce campaign herself; systematic use of commerce raiders could have made Allied operations much more complex and conquering and holding Japanese-held islands more difficult.
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