The focus is the planning of the Pearl Harbor operation. Japanese preparations establish what the attackers intended and how they developed the operation. American exercises then show how the U.S. Navy approached attacking the same base. The comparison tests whether American expectations about their own methods made Japanese preparations harder to recognize. Hubris and mistaken assumptions are offered as an explanation for that failure.
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Pearl Harbor planning and American carrier exercises
Japanese strike planning and American exercises expose different assumptions about how an attack on Pearl Harbor would unfold.