Roberta Wohlstetter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter was an American historian of U.S. military intelligence. In 1962 she authored Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. The book was based on a several-year study of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and is still considered the foundational study of military surprises. Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to her in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan.
Roberta Wohlstetter's Published Works
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- Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. (1962) (245)
- Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight (1965) (55)
- Room 39: Naval Intelligence in action 1939-45 (1968) (16)
- Controlling the risks in Cuba (1965) (11)
- Terror on a grand scale (1976) (11)
- On Not Confusing Ourselves: Essays On National Security Strategy In Honor Of Albert And Roberta Wohlstetter (1991) (9)
- The military potential of civilian nuclear energy (1977) (8)
- Breach of Security: The German Secret Intelligence File on Events Leading to the Second World War@@@The Secret Road to World War Two: Soviet versus Western Intelligence 1921-1939 (1968) (4)
- Slow Pearl Harbours and the Pleasures of Deception (1981) (4)
- The Pleasures of Self-Deception (1979) (2)
- Studies for a Post-Communist Cuba: (1963) (1)
- India's Nuclear Energy Program and U.S. Policies Today. Revision (1980) (0)
- Pearl Harbor (1962) (0)
- On Dealing with Castro's Cuba:: Part I (1965) (0)
- Book Review: Great Britain and the Commonwealth: Room 39: Naval Intelligence in Action, 1939–45 (1970) (0)
- Metaphors and Models: Inequalities and Disorder at Home and Abroad (1968) (0)
- On Dealing with Castro's Cuba: (1965) (0)
- Review: Breach of Security the German Secret Intelligence File on Events Leading to the Second World War, the Secret Road to World War Two Soviet versus Western Intelligence 1921–1939 (1971) (0)
- Notes on the Cuban Crisis (1962) (0)
- Notes on the Cuban Crisis: On the Importance of Overseas Bases in the 1960's Offense-Defense Semantics Keeping Open Possible Aid to Cuban Resistance (1962) (0)
- Nuclear policies: fuel without the bomb. [5 papers] (1978) (0)
- Metaphors and Models (1968) (0)
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