Keith Willshaw wrote:
"Tiger" wrote in message
If I launched a attack this Morning in 2004 on Norfolk, VA how prepared
would they be? About the same..... Oceania NAS might scramble jets.
Most ships in port would not be ready to steam out.
No torpedo nets, Live ammo mostly in the magazines,
lots of guys on shore. My subs could launch cruise missles
and sink most of the fleet today beter than a flock of Vals & Kates.

The difference being the commanders at Pearl Harbor had been
sent a message from Washington that began

'This dispatch is to be considered a war warning.'

That's like saying "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" without giving
the time, place or nature of the attack.

They assumed sabotage and they prepared for their own assumptions.

-HJC