To underpin how layered both the Japanese-American relationship was early last century and the Sino-American relationship is now, the commander of the Japanese Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, visited the college in 1924 and went on to serve as naval attaché at the Japanese embassy in Washington, DC. Ninety years later, in 2006, Wu Shengli, then head of the Chinese Navy, was also a guest at the college. Yamamoto went on to mastermind the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, and Wu oversaw the growth of the Chinese Navy to become a sea power that is now keeping American admirals up at night. He stepped down in
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