Somebody: This is backwards. The whole point is that elite ideologies can be dangerously out of sync with reality and can lead to unforeseen consequences. Afterall, they don't have greater powers of prognostication than anyone else.
It would be like saying there were no plans or strategies behind Germany's two attempts at European hegemony. There most certainly were. They were just ill-conceived, bloated by militaristic hubris, and based ultimately on the faulty premise that an economically powerful Germany couldn't have dominated the continent anyway. The same goes for Japan's co-prosperity sphere. Or going back, Napoleon's continental system.