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Published: 22 May 2023
...This chapter considers two related topics: the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening six months of World War II in Asia and the Pacific. For the better part of a generation, successive Japanese and American administrations had negotiated competing ambitions...
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Cyberwar Redux
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Ben Buchanan
Published: 08 December 2021
..., and subversion. This refined framing offers important implications for deterrence, coercion, and operational practice. cyberwar deterrence coercion Cyber Pearl Harbor cybersecurity Cyberwar is fashionable again. It took a while to get to this point. The 1990s and 2000s yielded a series of dire...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Michael Mandelbaum
Published: 22 August 2024
... economic effects. In response to Japan’s aggression in China, his government imposed economic sanctions on the Japanese. As Hitler set out to conquer Europe, Roosevelt sent economic and military assistance to Great Britain and the Soviet Union. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the United States...
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Introduction
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Uri Bar-Joseph and Rose McDermott
Published: 23 March 2017
... or failure in achieving surprise. Reviewing the academic literature of surprise attacks, the introduction focuses on Wohlstetter’s pioneering and influential study of Pearl Harbor and explains the uniqueness of this case, which makes her main conclusions, primarily the noise-to-signal ratio explanation...
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Surprise Attack: A Framework for Discussion
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Uri Bar-Joseph and Rose McDermott
Published: 23 March 2017
... Wohlstetter’s pioneering and influential study of Pearl Harbor and describe the uniqueness of this case and why her argument about signal-to-noise ratio may be less relevant for other cases of intelligence failure. More often, high quality decision-making is impaired by specific obstacles in the psychological...
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War
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Jane Caplan
Published: 25 July 2019
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Higher Education
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William E. Ellis
Published: 22 May 2011
... for the military, government posts, or civilian jobs long before Pearl Harbor and the formal declaration of war. World War II had a profound and lasting impact on higher education in Kentucky. The GI Bill in Kentucky suddenly changed higher education in the state forever. At the end of World War II, three studies...
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Published: 24 March 2017
... Powell John B Shen bao Smedley Agnes Starr Cornelius Vander treaty port press North China Snow Edgar Belden Jack Han Deqin New Fourth Army Incident China Defence League China Weekly Review Christian Science Monitor Deane Hugh Guomindang leftists Soong Qing ling Gallop poll Pearl Harbor...
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Military Gametime: History, Narrative, and Temporality in Cinema and Games
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Patrick Crogan
Published: 01 December 2011
...This chapter presents a comparative analysis of two products of the military-entertainment complex—Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2: WWII Pacific Theater (2000) and the film Pearl Harbor (2000)—that remediate narrative and interactive forms of temporal...
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Advertising Navigates the Defense Economy
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Inger L. Stole
Published: 01 November 2012
... of advertising. The chapter explores the challenges faced by the advertising community in the period leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and immediately thereafter, including how the industry dealt with new forms of criticism and how it viewed its role in the war economy. The chapter concludes...
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Continuity and Change in Hollywood’s Representations of American-Asian Relations in War and Peace
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Robert Brent Toplin
Published: 31 January 2016
... primarily but not exclusively to geopolitical shifts. The chapter explores how depictions of Japanese characters radically shifted after Pearl Harbor and again after the American Occupation of Japan. Toplin also traces shifting characterizations of Chinese characters. During much of the 1930s and 1940s...
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Ignoring and Underestimating Problems
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George C. Edwards III
Published: 16 November 2022
... to evaluate options consistent with those policies more positively than is appropriate. Thomas Jefferson’s embargo, French military planning for World War I, Hitler’s invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa), the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in 1941, the U.S.-supported invasion...
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The Perils of Technological Transformation: A Case Study of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Alan D. Zimm
Published: 22 October 2019
...The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 saw the introduction of game-changing naval strike technologies, among them the first Japanese introduction of aircraft voice radios, shallow-running torpedoes, armor-piercing bombs, advanced fuzes, and the use of dive bombers against fleet...
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“A Strain on the Tie That Binds”
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Elesha J. Coffman
Published: 06 May 2013
...The nascent mainline did not collapse in the 1930s, but it did experience sharp theological conflict within its ranks. Ironically, the focus of the bitterest fights was pacifism. The pacifist controversy intensified right up until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, an event that erased...
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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
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CHUSHICHI TSUZUKI
Published: 13 April 2000
...The frontier wars of the 1930s had been more than ‘sideshows’ to the later Asia-Pacific War; they illustrate the process of the ‘abject slide’ into the war. The frontier war with Russia is illustrated. It also addresses the transition from French Indochina to Pearl Harbor. Jubilation over...
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Published: 08 November 2011
... that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When it happened there was unrest all around and people were panicking and crying. The radio programs appealed to people to join the army. War was declared. It was at the gig that night that Clark played “Blue Moon”, and suddenly, the atmosphere calmed, almost being controlled...
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Published: 08 November 2011
...The attacking of the Pearl Harbor by the Japanese resulted in a war and unrest. It was this time that Clark Terry decided to go back to St. Louis. To earn some money, he took a gig at the Southern Barbecue, Michigan, where he played with Tim Jones, John Cameron, and Basie. But the job only lasted...
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Published: 04 September 2010
...This chapter examines both secular and religious pacifists, the movement's reaction to prewar preparedness, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the vital role that peace activists and conscientious objectors played in supporting civil liberties during the ensuing war, and the latter's heroic role...
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Published: 20 July 2017
... in discrimination against and persecution of US residents via the deportation of Americans of Japanese origin after the attack on Pearl Harbor. ethnicity immigrants marketing national origin President of the United States US Congress US Department of State black Hollerith IBM Power Tyrone Puget Sound...
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An Anthology of Faces at Pierre Matisse
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Allen Ellenzweig
Published: 18 January 2022
... is unknown for weeks, though ultimately the Americans are repatriated. In November 1941, George shows “two hundred portraits” at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, consolidating his reputation as a premier photographic portraitist. Soon after, the bombing of Pearl Harbor brings America into World War II. Balanchine...