Lessons Today’s Leaders Should Take from the Attack on Pearl Harbor
At sunrise on this day in 1941, the Japanese launched [1] a surprise attack on the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, having sailed across the Pacific Ocean unnoticed. In addition to the 19 ships destroyed, 2,403 American soldiers were killed and 1,178 wounded in the attack.
While this attack was 75 years ago, there are pertinent lessons for today’s leaders to learn from how America handled it.
The Japanese were motivated by many factors in striking the U.S., among them deterring America from intervening in their imperial conquests in the Pacific. Though the Japanese succeeded in temporarily crippling the U.S. Navy, their gamble backfired and inadvertently facilitated America’s rise as a global military power and the defeat of the axis powers.
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