Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007)

Roberta Wohlstetter
Roberta Wohlstetter

Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter was an American historian of U.S. military intelligence. In 1962 she authored Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. The book was based on a several-year study of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and is still considered the foundational study of military surprises. President Ronald Reagan awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.

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