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Watch Harvard professor Ernest May discuss some of history's most infamous surprise attacks and the lessons for current policymakers as part...
Speaker: Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of History, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Coauthor, Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
Presider: Wm. Roger Louis, Director, National History Center; Past President, American Historical Association
October 24, 2007
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Watch Harvard professor Ernest May discuss some of history's most infamous surprise attacks and the lessons for current policymakers as part...