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I love learning about how what you would think was a little twist of history can have such a dramatic ripple effect. The German Mediterranean fleet escaping to Istanbul (and rapidly accelerating the...

I did several years ago. It was excellent. I was really surprised to read about how much resistance there was to sending support to Britain.

I think to a certain degree both sides misunderstood the resolve of the other. It was a giant game of chicken, and the Japanese "blinked" first.

I get, and agree, with that. But the article states:



But...that doesn't have to be true, right? CPS and the mayors office very easily could have had them, used them, and then (irresponsibly)...

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Flag on the play. ;)

Okay, I might be (am probably) missing something here. But how is not having it now the same as not having had it for analysis in building the policy?

Just for the sake of clarity; Moffitt, Browner, and now Irvin were busted for "adderall". Hill and White were busted for weed, and Guy was busted for something that was OTC, but banned.

It's kind of a shame. You can make a defensible argument that FDR's Japanese containment policy was a poor one, throwing gas on the flames and moving war with Japan from "probable" to "inevitable",...

This is always my favorite part of the historical arguments with Walsh. The "I've got nothing, so I'm going cue up a tantrum and pretend I won" phase.

Yup. So there's that, at least.

Yup. Six in three. One more than the Redskins, two more than the Bucs.

I laughed.

I was going to point out the lack of peer review, but I think you cut farther into the heart of the matter.

Son. Quit digging.



I'll wager a large sum of cash you haven't read it either. A 30 second google search (because you really aren't worth the time to go digging in my library) turns up:

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And the Japanese had what reason to lie? When did all the players get together to get their story straight? And how was this cabal able to keep it quiet?



Actually, yes, it does. After action...

So, in other words, your links to date have not said what you claimed they did. And rather than admit it, you're going to try and argue semantics.

Here's the thing, though. Your arguments don't...

Um, you do know that there is a difference between the orders given to the fleet (e.g. "sailing orders") and a transmission on a diplomatic cable are, right?. You may want to take a moment to note...

Midway was also a ton of dumb luck. The Naval War College in Newport war gamed the battle every year for decades and could never replicate the actual result. IIRC the vast majority of the time the US...

LOL...as mentioned above...Purple wasn't a naval code. From your very own link:



Clearly you couldn't even make it through your own "evidence".

Aww...cute. Purple. The diplomatic code. Now find one. One. Transmission indicating an attack on Pearl. JN-25 was the military cypher. Did Stinnett not claim that was broken as well?

Psssh. Your ideology blinds you to the fact that we claim to have broken it in six months after Pearl Harbor, when a non-sheeple knows that we were capable of identifying and breaking complex codes...

Did Stinnett claim that we had cracked the Japanese naval code?

It's not ideological. It's factual. Stinnett created his own facts.

What appendix material do I need for the first point? The picture of the log is included in the chapter. The time stamps are...

Not as good as:



IMO.

Nice to see him getting back to the fundamentals that made him so great.