Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Remembering Pearl Harbor

Remembering Pearl Harbor on the seventy-sixth anniversary and the lessons learned from World War II’s successes and failures and how they apply to current world tensions.

Matters of Policy & Politics•December 7, 2017
Area 45: Remembering Pearl Harbor

Seventy-six years ago, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America went to war. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover senior fellow and author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, discusses lessons learned from that conflict’s successes and failures  and how they apply today.  

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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson

Bill Whalen

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