This entry was posted by co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate:
There is a cottage industry in the US about finding the “Final Secret” to Pearl Harbor and who was responsible for it. The revisionists want to blame FDR and the battleship boys keep saying “It wasn’t our fault.” Actually, there’s enough blame to go around but in the end, the Japanese planned it and executed it with daring and a great deal of skill, not to mention cunning. There are two big lessons that we apparently have not learned. First, no one single intelligence agency was seeing all the signals and responsible for analysis and dissemination. Second, there was a mindset that the Japanese could not pull something like Pearl Harbor off.
Sound familiar? If not, read the 9-11 report.