WILL THERE BE A DIGITAL PEARL HARBOR?

Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941, photograph taken from a Japanese attack plane.



I Was Wrong: There Probably Will Be an Electronic Pearl Harbor
by Ira Winkler


"Pearl Harbor was a preemptive strike against the US Pacific Fleet. It significantly degraded the US Naval capability for several years. If the aircraft carriers were in Pearl Harbor as the Japanese expected, it could have been a complete knockout blow . . .


. . . things are developing to the point where there can be a strategic attack on computer infrastructures. The key word is Strategic."





USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941


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AT DAWN WE SLEPT

All my life I was told that we must NEVER FORGET that this happened:










. . . that America let her guard down and a cunning, unethical enemy took advantage, blindsided us in a sneak attack at dawn.






And then it happened again, in my own lifetime:





We must never forget:







THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE







The title to this posting is borrowed from the book At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon