Even with AI, war games are imperfect. In some cases, the outcomes are rejected for a number of reasons. The first is the absence of sufficient knowledge and understanding that explain American disasters in Vietnam and elsewhere. The second is groupthink often infected by the third reason: arr...
The U.S. road to disaster - in Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, Korea and Pearl Harbor - is paved with Groupthink - the desperate drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent among the mighty in the corridors of powerJanis, Irving L...
On the seventh day of December, 1941, the Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese in what appeared as a surprised assault. The Japanese managed to attack the U.S. Naval Base through airstrike and created unimaginable destruction. Within two hours after the first bombing, the U.S. had los...
Sectionalism and Groupthink Sectionalism was the norm of the day within the U.S. intelligence management community in the pre-Pearl Harbor attack. This phenomenon was responsible for the unprecedented devastation upon the nation, which was in the clear was a path with its attacker. To begin wit...