The details of Battle of Midway Atoll can be accessed on the following link
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-midway
Analysis
It has been 73 years since Japanse and the US navies confronted each other in the Pacific, in June 1942, during the war for Midway Atoll in World War II. The war has been described as "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare" by renowned British military historian, John Keegan and very rightly so. This was the sea battle which put Japanese maritime victories in the Pacific to an end effectively clearing the way for the US Navy to assert itself in the Pacific Ocean throughout the war.
The outcome of this Japanese misadventure, after some earlier successes in the Pacific, carries many lessons for the strategic thinkers and military planners.
The most fundamental strategic blunder Japanese combined fleet commander, Admiral Yamamoto made was that he planned a complex maritime operation to lure the US carrier fleet into a trap on faulty assumption and extremely poor military intelligence. The strength of the US Navy and morale of the US Naval officers were miscalculated to a dangerous extent and consequently, not only Yamamoto lost the battle but all his 4 aircraft carrier that took part in this attack along with more than 240 aircraft and 3000 soldiers on board.
Though its was only in 2010 when the US strategic planner embraced air-sea battle as an integrated war doctrine, battle of Midway Atoll was the first decisive war where the US Navy and Air Force conducted joint raids after raids on attacking Japanese naval fleet.
