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Pearl Harbor & 911
Similarities and Differences: Pearl Harbor and 9/11
Sixty years separate two of the most infamous events in American history. Both the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor were defining moments that altered the course of history. Both caught the country by surprise, rallied its people against their attackers and engendered a long and difficult war against tyranny.
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 resulted in more than 2,400 American deaths. Within hours after the incident five of the eight battleships at the U.S. naval base were either sunk or sinking, and many other ships as well as combat planes were heavily damaged or destroyed. The Japanese hoped that by crippling the U.S. Pacific Fleet they could eliminate it as a threat to the Empire's desire to expand south. The attacks of September 11, 2001 were more symbolic than tactical. The death toll from the attacks was almost 3,000. The World Trade Center (the target of a previous al-Qaeda attack in 1993) stood as a symbol of the U.S. free market economy. The Pentagon represented the U.S. military's command center, and the other intended target, either the White House or the Capitol, represented the center of U.S. Government (Miles, 2006).
According to Major General Perry Smith (2011) there are three levels of warfare, tactical, operational, and strategic. Usually successful military campaigns focus on the strategic...
If the strategic plan is flawed operational and tactical success is in jeopardy. On the tactical level the attack on Pearl Harbor was a significant success, surprise was achieved, many American ships were sunk or badly damaged, and 188 combat airplanes were destroyed. The Japanese lost no large ships, only 29 combat aircraft and returned home in triumph. On the other hand the operational level was less successful, no American aircraft carriers were attacked, and they failed to hit oil and gasoline storage facilities and repair facilities. At the strategic level the attack created a surge of outrage throughout the nation that focused the nation on retribution. In three and a half years the U.S. And its allies won the war and later established democracies in Germany, Japan, and Italy.
Perry (2011) also notes that the September 11, 2001 attacks had great tactical success. Surprise was complete, damage in New York and at the Pentagon was extensive, and the cost in lives and money to al-Qaida was low. Nonetheless, the operational plan was less successful, the fourth airliner never reached its target and the wrong side of the Pentagon was struck. It is too early to ascertain the complete impact of these attacks on the strategic level. After the attacks the nations of the world united in a cooperative way to fight terrorism. Today intelligence information concerning terrorist activities is not only shared with…
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Miles, D. (2006, December 7). Pearl Harbor parallells 9-11. Military.com. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,120133,00.html
Smith, P. (2011, December 3). Comparing Pearl Harbor to 9-11 on three levels of warfare. The Augusta chronicle. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/opinion-columns/2011-12-03/comparing-pearl-harbor-9-11-three-levels-warfare
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