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In a 1988 article, political scientist Scott Sagan claims that "the available evidence" suggests that the "United States would not have gone to war in the summer of 1940 had the Japanese restricted their attack to the British and Dutch colonies". Is it accurate assessment of the available evidence?

by /u/smurfyjenkins in /r/AskHistorians

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