Pearl harbor and intelligence failure Presentation 2022

PEARL HARBOR
AND
INTELLIGENCE
FAILURE
An Overview

INTRODUCTION
 Japan’s attack on the Pearl Harbor of
USA on 7 December 1941 is often
considered to be one of the biggest
failures of strategic intelligence.
 The military leaders of USA got a
fair idea regarding the impending
attack on Pearl Harbor however they
rejected the idea as too far-fetched or
preposterous (Dahl 2017).
 Furthermore, the nation of USA
failed to effectively utilize the
concept of strategic intelligence
which could have helped it to avert
the attack.

STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
 Strategic intelligence refers to the process
which is being followed for the collection,
processing, analysis and thereby the
dissemination of the information which is
needed for the formulation of the different
policies or military plans (Wirtz 2018).
 Pastorello and Testa (2017) have noted that
the majority of the information which is
needed by the nations for the usage of the
process of strategic intelligence comes
from the diverse “Open Source
Intelligence”.
 It helps the nations to gain a foresight
about the offensive actions which their
enemies or the other nations are intending
to use against them (Dahl 2013).