A good example of how the US adapted and learned from the past was the "unrestricted submarine warfare" change in tactics.
Post WWI, everybody was outlawing the use of unrestricted submarine warfare, but the second the US was attacked, we dropped that law/rule. Atleast somebody in the naval college had paid attention to what Germany was almost able to achive with u-boats. The Japanese were married to the "subs-as-fleet-support" strategy.
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