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Michael O’Hanlon (Senior Fellow and Director of Research for Brookings Foreign Policy), quoted in: "Around the halls: Experts react to the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani," January 3, 2020, Brookings Institution; "Killing him was more akin to shooting down the plane of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto in World War II than attacking a civilian leader.", retrieved September 26, 2021

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Schilling & Schilling 2016, pp. 522. Schilling, Warner R.; Schilling, Jonathan L. (Fall 2016). "Decision Making in Using Assassinations in International Relations". Political Science Quarterly. 131 (3): 503–539. doi:10.1002/polq.12487.

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Lowry, Rich: Where Does Admiral Yamamoto Go to Get His Apology?" in "Politics & Policy," January 6, 2020, National Review, retrieved September 26, 2020; "Before there was Qasem Soleimani, there was Admiral Yamamoto... If it was wrong to kill Soleimani, it was wrong to kill Yamamoto—just as barbaric and illegal, just as damnable an 'assassination.'"

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Bellaire, Robert (May 21, 1943). "Yamamoto Suicide Is Bellaire's Guess". The Boston Globe. United Press. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.

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Schilling & Schilling 2016, pp. 521. Schilling, Warner R.; Schilling, Jonathan L. (Fall 2016). "Decision Making in Using Assassinations in International Relations". Political Science Quarterly. 131 (3): 503–539. doi:10.1002/polq.12487.
Schilling & Schilling 2016, pp. 521–522. Schilling, Warner R.; Schilling, Jonathan L. (Fall 2016). "Decision Making in Using Assassinations in International Relations". Political Science Quarterly. 131 (3): 503–539. doi:10.1002/polq.12487.
Schilling & Schilling 2016, pp. 522. Schilling, Warner R.; Schilling, Jonathan L. (Fall 2016). "Decision Making in Using Assassinations in International Relations". Political Science Quarterly. 131 (3): 503–539. doi:10.1002/polq.12487.

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Press conference transcript: "Senior State Department Officials on the Situation in Iraq," Special Briefing, January 3, 2020, Office of the Spokesperson, U.S. Department of State, retrieved September 26, 2021; "SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL ONE: ...Secretary Esper... said that Soleimani was developing plans to attack diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region, and so this is a defensive strike. ... * * * QUESTION: The decision to take [Soleimani] out wasn’t necessarily a way of removing this... threat that you were talking about in these different countries and these different facilities – but it’s a way to mitigate it in the future?... SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL THREE: It slows it down. It makes it less likely. It’s shooting down Yamamoto in 1942."

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Ian W. Toll: "Before Soleimani, there was Yamamoto. But the history is very different." January 12, 2020, Washington Post, retrieved September 26, 2020; "The U.S. military’s targeted killing of... Qasem Soleimani... was not unprecedented. A famous antecedent occurred during World War II, when U.S. forces targeted a senior Japanese admiral by shooting down his aircraft in the South Pacific. Lately the episode has been mentioned amid the debate over justifications of the Soleimani strike..."

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"Northern Solomons Campaign". www.goforbroke.org. Go For Broke National Education Center. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014.
Arvanitakis, Adonis C (2015-03-24). "Killing a Peacock: A Case Study of the Targeted Killing of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto". Defense Technical Information Center. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017.
Douglas S. Canning (May 2006). "Who Shot Down Yamamoto?". Air Force Magazine. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
Cooper, Helene; Schmitt, Eric; Haberman, Maggie; Callimachi, Rukmini (January 4, 2020). "As Tensions With Iran Escalated, Trump Opted for Most Extreme Measure". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 6, 2020. Retrieved January 4, 2020.

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Maffeo, Steven (2015). U.S. Navy codebreakers, linguists, and intelligence officers against Japan, 1910–1941 : a biographical dictionary. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 493. ISBN 9781442255647. OCLC 914224225.
Haulman, Daniel L. "The Man Who Shot down Yamamoto". Air & Space Forces. Vol. 107, no. March/April 2024. pp. 48–53. ISSN 0730-6784.

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Kittel, Brian S. (possible relative of mission pilot Louis Kittel): "The Evolution of Tactics: A Moral Look at the Decision to Target Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of Japan’s Combined Fleet", August 2015, Western Oregon University, retrieved September 26, 2021

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