Cnn: Pearl Harbor 50 Years After (2001) Review

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(More customer reviews)No event has affected the American public more than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, although the destruction of the twin towers in 9/11 comes close. There are many parallels, in both cases it was an attack that cost thousands of lives and massive destruction. Each can be considered a sneak attack although in both cases there was a lot of warning. In 1941, everyone in the high levels of government knew that the Japanese would attempt a major military action in the Pacific and there was message traffic that indicated the target was Pearl Harbor. In the case of 9/11 there was wide knowledge that the terrorist organizations were going to attempt a major assault. The identities of some of the attackers were known and the intelligence communities failed to reach the appropriate conclusions.
In the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the key point of failure was the belief that the Japanese simply weren't capable of mounting such an attack. As always, conspiracy theories abound, including those that believe that Franklin Roosevelt knew of the attack but wanted it to succeed so that America would be thrust into the war. As is made clear on this tape, all can be explained by a combination of American complacency and Japanese military efficiency. The Japanese navy was a first class military unit, capable of achieving great things, but lacking the reserves necessary to carry out a long war in the Pacific.
There were profound changes in the American public mood as a consequence of the attack on Pearl Harbor, some of which were still part of policy making fifty years later. To understand American involvement in World War II, it is necessary to understand the attack on Pearl Harbor and this tape will give you the fundamentals of what went right on the Japanese side and so wrong on the American side.


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