"The Muddle Before Pearl Harbor" by Captain T.B. Kittredge, U.S. News & World Report, December 3, 1954

In this article, Kittredge, a Naval historian, analyzes the military and political situation leading up to Pearl Harbor. He concludes that high government officials, including the President, made every possible effort to avert war with Japan and that the Army and Navy failed to institute measures to detect an approaching hostile force.