Re: POLITICIANS AND OTHERS IN GAMING

Ok, I'll spell it out for you...

How did Admiral Kimmel's well known bravado in U.S. forces and contempt
for
the Japanesse influence the actions of the men under him that led to the
disaster at Pearl Harbor?

The radar operator who picked up a large flight of aircraft coming from
the
opposite direction the aircraft due to arrive that day should have been
coming from that day.

The non-response from fleet when a U.S. Destroyer detected, attacked,
and
destroyed a midget submarine trying to enter Pearl Harbor before the
attack
on Pearl Harbor.

I vaguely remmeber something about an imortant message (possibly about
the
midget sub) that was left sitting on an officiers desk instead of being
forwarded and acted upon.

In everyone of these cases, there was sufficient cause to put that base
and
those ships on alert.  But why weren't they.  Could have Admiral
Kimmel's
over confidence and contempt infected his men and resulted in them
making a
serries of bad mistakes?  No one knows the answer to this, but his
attitude
most certainly did nothing to discourage it.

Note, that in none of this did Admiral Kimmel need accurate information
from
Washington.

ias