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Naval journalist Hector C. Bywater was a top naval affairs expert in the early 20th century and one of the first military experts to predict that a war conflict would break out between the United States and Japan. Based on his analysis of the international situation at the time, he deduced the specific process of the U. S.-Japanese war in the form of a military novel in his 1925 book "The Pacific War." Based on his analysis and judgment of the tense domestic situation in Japan at that time, he believed that this situation would encourage Japan's ambitions for foreign aggression. Faced with U. S. Commercial competition in Asia and the potential threat from the U. S. Navy, Japan's hostility to the United States increasingly deepened, eventually starting with Japan's attack on the U. S. Asian naval fleet, provoking the U. S.-Japan Pacific War. As the two major naval powers at the time, the United States and Japan, who will be the winner in the end? Is the purpose of this war to achieve hegemony or to maintain peace? Bywater made his miraculous prediction 16 years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The novel depicts a lot of scenes of the war between the United States and Japan in the Pacific, and some details of the war are surprisingly similar to real history.