This is a comment, from a review of a book in an intelligence journal, about Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories:
Kaiser, I&NS 9.2, finds that Final Judgement "adds to our knowledge in several important respects." Clausen has produced a "highly readable book.... [M]uch of what he uncovered late in the war ... has been ignored.... Lawyers ... acquire the habit of working to prove a particular point.... Readers must therefore approach his account with caution." Neither Rusbridger and Nave nor Layton "have been able to prove that anyone had real information warning of a Pearl Harbor attack.... [T]he behavior of the Washington authorities suggests that they believed that they had given field commanders enough warning of impending hostilities, and for the most part, the record backs them up.... Th[e] evidence ... suggests that General Short simply did not regard an attack upon Hawaii as a serious possibility.... To the unbiased, reflective historian, five decades after the event, the Pearl Harbor attack exemplifies the difficult of anticipating surprise, the mistakes which individuals inevitably make, the ease with which governments fail to make use of available information, and the relative unimportance, in the long run, of winning the opening battle of a war."
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