General Douglas MacArthur created island hopping to quickly counter Japan's takeover of territory in the nearby seas. This strategy would enable the U.S. to effectively attack Japan on multiple fronts, thus leading to a direct assault to the homeland.
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US was attacking in the island hopping campaign, not Japan. Japan was defending. Island hopping started midway, and went through Iwo Jima, Tarawa, and so on. again, US was attacking.
Island hopping was a strategy for gaining ground in the Pacific during World War II. The plan was to take control of an island, then jump to the next one. Eventually, this allowed the US to get close enough to Japan to bomb them repeatedly.
During World War II, the American strategy in the Pacific against the Japanese became known as 'island-hopping.' Through this approach to defeating their enemy, the U.S. military by-passed (or, hopped over) Japanese strong-points for the sake of securing selected islands elsewhere. These islands, once occupied, would then serve as forward bases for the next 'hop' forward -- closer to Japan itself.
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The tactic was called "Island Hopping". Sun Tzu is probably the first to write about this strategy, saying "some towns are meant to be bypassed".
Island hopping. (In NovaNET: "leap frogging")
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