Tora ! Tora ! Tora ! allows the "enemy" to be seen as reasonable humans ( as much as war will allow) with calculated decisions to make from their point of view as opposed to a people marching throughout the Far East with reckless abandon.

The Japanese were reeling under the U.S. and Britain oil embargo and were looking to seize the opportunity of their perceived Asian nationalism as the western powers were busy in Europe. The Japanese signed the Tri-Partite pact which in a sense put in motion Japanese aggression towards the U.S.

From the beginning of the film, the directors allow the viewer the many clues to the h

The U.S. on the other hand has been criticized for many including local historian Robert Stinnett who conclude that the U.S. could not have been so careless and that FDR wanted this war for the excuse of pulling the U.S. out of a recession and that the attack on Pearl Harbor was just the collateral damage that he needed for a declaration of war. This in my opinion is compounded by the fact that we do not see FDR in the film. Also the fact that the carriers were out to sea, which coincidentally was the Japanese main target and the U.S.'s main stalwart.

The U.S. is shown in this film has being almost nonchalant during this time. In one scene the military is shown having trouble obtaining a permit for a radar. To top it off, the men assigned to the radar have neither experience nor communications. The U.S. in all of it's military intelligence (in both senses of the word) seem to be ambivalent to considerable shortcomings of Pearl Harbor. The fact that the depth was shallow ( 40 feet; about as shallow as the Oakland Harbors) where a ship could be sank at the mouth of the harbor and effectively trap the fleet in the harbor rendering them ineffective for battle and make them sitting ducks for enemy attack.. In an earlier battle, the British had sank two Italian ships in Toronto in a similar battle. A fact not lost on either the U.S. or Japanese.

Japanese and U.S. diplomacy is shown to be going through motions with the U.S. intercepting Japanese code and deciphering it even before the Japanese ambassador due to a lack of a skilled typist The U.S does seem to have an air of condescension towards the Japanese and their abilities to pull off an attack. There are critical scenes in the film where outright U.S. arrogance will later become a problem for the U.S. again defying military common sense ( at least looking to hindsight) as essential aircraft are moved from strategic areas to vulnerable areas clumped together in the middle of an airfield. In the hours leading to the attack we again see the

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