The most complex, the most difficult, the most daring, and the greatest and most brilliantly planned and executed military operation in all of the history of naval warfare. Poker Applied or Operant Aggressiveness. The U.S. Pacific Navy ceased to be a functional and effective fleet for awhile immediately after the attack. Know the Game Ways of Thine Enemy. They really cased the joint.
Timing is everything.
Admiral Yamamoto attacked after the first payday of the first week of the month, on an early Sunday when everybody was still in a drunken stupor, or were still in bed nostalgically dreaming of a mainland white Christmas. We Slept, embodied all this. Game plan and execution. The attack and its mechanics had been percolating inside Yamamoto's bullet-shaped skull for many years. The strategic big bluff.