Pearl Harbor : warning and decision

It would be reassuring to believe that Pearl Harbor was just a colossal and extraordinary blunder. What is disquieting is that it was a supremely ordinary blunder. In fact, 'blunder' is too specific; our stupendous unreadiness at Pearl Harbor was neither a Sunday-morning, nor a Hawaiian, phenomenon. It was just a dramatic failure of a remarkably well-informed government to call the next enemy move in a cold-war crisis. Frontmatter (page N/A) Note on Rank (page xviii) Introduction (page 1) 1 Signals for Honolulu (page 5) 2 Noise in Honolulu (page 71) 3 Magic (page 170) 4 Signals and Noise At Home (page 228) 5 Washington Intelligence (page 279) 6 The Reality Behind the Signals (page 339) 7 Surprise (page 382) Appendix (page 403) Abbreviations and Special Names (page 411) Bibliography (page 413) Index (page 419) This account of the Pearl Harbor attack denies that the lack of preparation resulted from military negligence or a political plot