I have been teaching the history of US nuclear doctrine, and my students cannot comprehend that, for much of the 1945-1965 era, US policymakers were averse to doctrines of surprise attacks because of the memory of Pearl Harbor. It simply does not fit with their experience of US strategies in the current era.
I have been teaching the history of US nuclear doctrine, and my students cannot comprehend that, for much of the 1945-1965 era, US policymakers were averse to doctrines of surprise attacks because of the memory of Pearl Harbor. It simply does not fit with their experience of US strategies in the current era.
We teach to military leaders that Japan’s surprise attack was the ultimate strategic mistake. You see that right?