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Also, we had not completely cracked Japan's codes in
Posted on: December 7, 2018 at 10:08:35 CT
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1941 as the article indicates.
This is one of the lessons of Pearl Harbor. American code-breakers performed prodigies, giving remarkable insight into Japanese thinking. But that insight was not total, and so even the extraordinary U.S. cryptanalysis could not warn policymakers of Japan’s secret intentions.
The nations of the world learned the value of code-breaking during World War I. Radio–used extensively in that conflict for the first time–gave them their opportunity. Messages were easily intercepted, so armies and navies sheathed them in codes and ciphers. But linguists and mathematicians on both sides learned to crack them, and the information thereby obtained provided victory after victory to generals, admirals and political leaders. Cryptanalysis substantially helped France to block the supreme German offensive in 1918, Germany to defeat Russia, Britain to bring the United States into the war, the United States to convict a German spy. When hostilities ended, the powers refounded these agencies to retain in peace the benefits won in war.
This is one of the lessons of Pearl Harbor. American code-breakers performed prodigies, giving remarkable insight into Japanese thinking. But that insight was not total, and so even the extraordinary U.S. cryptanalysis could not warn policymakers of Japan’s secret intentions.
The nations of the world learned the value of code-breaking during World War I. Radio–used extensively in that conflict for the first time–gave them their opportunity. Messages were easily intercepted, so armies and navies sheathed them in codes and ciphers. But linguists and mathematicians on both sides learned to crack them, and the information thereby obtained provided victory after victory to generals, admirals and political leaders. Cryptanalysis substantially helped France to block the supreme German offensive in 1918, Germany to defeat Russia, Britain to bring the United States into the war, the United States to convict a German spy. When hostilities ended, the powers refounded these agencies to retain in peace the benefits won in war.
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Also, we had not completely cracked Japan's codes in - MrBlueSky MU - 12/7 10:08:35