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The First Invisible Battlefield (Radio Intelligence)
The First Invisible Battlefield (Radio Intelligence)
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The Human Cost of Staying First
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The Human Cost of Staying First
Contrasting Fates Determined by Radio Intelligence (1941-1943)
The Invisible Battlefield Emerges (1903-1905)
Second Invisible Battleground Emerges (1949)
Human Cost Induces “Wizard Thinking”
Connecting the Invisible Threads
Summary
The Pattern Creators
Territorial Patterns
Evolving Radio Technology
Communication Patterns
Financial Patterns
Summary
Decoding the Bootleggers
Elizebeth Friedman
West Coast Unit
William Friedman
Cryptanalytic Unit
Sinking of I’m Alone
The Friedman Trove
Summary
Decoding the Naval Disarmament Conference
Vice Admiral Kamimura Hikonojō
Russian Pacific Fleet Depredations
First Wartime Radio Traffic Analysis
Fourteen Points to Port and Annihilate
Arms Race
Age of Sail
Pre-Dreadnaught Battleships
Two-Ocean Navy
Washington Naval Conference
Teapot Dome
Strategic Imperative
Summary
Flying Against the Imperial Japanese Navy
United States Naval Academy
Year-End Traditions
Naval Air Station Pensacola
Assassination
Carrier Qualification
Rabaul
Medal of Honor
Final Flight
Great Friends
Summary
Was Location “AF” Midway, or the Aleutian Islands?
Planned Attack on “AF”
Red
Blue
December 4, 1941
December 8, 1941
Chester Nimitz
March 9, 1942
Rochefort’s Big Break
Chicago Tribune
Presidential Authorization
Disastrous Mental Models
Summary
Hedy Lamarr, the Mother of WiFi
Spread Spectrum
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Barbara La Marr
Hollywood
Fritz Mandl
Waves
Player Piano
Summary