84 years ago. Amazing. I once was a substitute history teacher at a Junior High School in Northern Virginia. I generally just had one class, gave the students a list of topics I'd be willing to discuss, told them to put away pencils. Once one kid asked, "How old are you!" I answered, "I was born 2 days after D-Day." Blank looks. Finally one kid snapped his fingers and said, "World War II right?" Same no doubt can be said of this day.
By the way I often used 07 December 1941 as an example of the problems we have in analysing intelligence information these days (Information is raw reports - intelligence is finished analysis). . .80 years after the National Security Act of 1947 created an organization for central all-source analysis to make sure that day never happened again, layers of bureaucracy, agency infighting and legal restrictions have once again hampered real-time research.
Do you wonder in the present climate, what might happen if a Fishing boat shows up at an Oahu harbor saying he's seen 4 carriers north of the Island on Dec 6, 1941? The raw report would be killed - questions would be asked about his competence, sourcing, does he know what a carrier looks like, who were the captains, what is their mission. ."nothing confirms this" - need more info - "he was drunk". . . and the analysts would never get the raw report.
The savior of this human tangle, entirely created for bureaucratic reasons and some utter post 9/11 silliness is going to be AI....artificial intelligence. And people not using it now are a light year behind. And that's not just in analysis but in everything including gun repair and automobile mechanics.
Last edited by Argo44; 12/07/25 08:43 PM.
