By Geoff Tompson
The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
WHEN considering the lessons from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Professor Ron Spector of the George Washington University said, ‘American popular disapproval for going to war should not have allowed its government to fail in preparing for one.’ The 2014 independence Referendum White Paper therefore quite rightly incorporated a section on the defence of an independent Scotland.