Commentary: Arnaud de Borchgrave // 8 years ago
Needed: Strategy, not slogans, to defeat the Islamic State
Today marks the 74th anniversary of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. That attack was designed to "shock and awe" an isolationist America into an early negotiated surrender after its Pacific Fleet battleships were sunk or put out of action by the Imperial Japanese Navy, giving Japan free license to expand its East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere as far as it liked. But the outcome was not the one expected by the military dictatorship in Tokyo.