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I ran one Google search on Phil Jacobsen and got this:

http://intellit.muskingum.edu/alpha_folder/J_folder/jacobsen_p.html

It lists a bunch his articles, which you can then find, download the notes, and do the damn research yourself. You seem to think that plucking a book off Amazon makes it an authority. Well, Cougar and I have tried to explain to you how SCHOLARSHIP works and you have a tin ear.

What are the author's credentials? Does the author have experience in cryptanalysis? Was the person in the War Department? If not, is the person a historian? (Stinnett is NOT. He's a former Navy radio guy. I don't have a clue who some of these others are. Their names never surface in the historical scholarship about PH, so that should tell you something.) Prange is to Pearl Harbor what Bruce Catton was to the Civil War---good in his time, thorough, but long eclipsed by more recent evidence.

Now, as we all have tried to tell you, you do "scholarship" by not just throwing out citations, but getting into the endnotes, and finding out if a citation that says it deals with "x" actually deals with "x" and was written on the day it claims to be, and so on. Stinnett's junk does not do this. He cites things that don't actually support what he says.

Of course, if you had read my review on Continuity, the reference which I supplied you, you would know that. Instead, you go to the discount pile at the bookstore to find yet another hack writing another book on Pearl Harbor without the slightest semblance of scholarship.

I'm done. Enjoy your ignorance.

LS: "It lists a bunch his articles, which you can then find, download the notes, and do the damn research yourself."

I'll say it again: I have neither time, qualifications nor enough interest to do serious scholarly research of my own.
But I'll be happy to pay the price of a book to someone who truly knows their stuff and can honestly answer the questions about what happened at Pearl Harbor.

LS: "What are the author's credentials?
Does the author have experience in cryptanalysis?
Was the person in the War Department?
If not, is the person a historian? (Stinnett is NOT..."

I'll say it again: I'm looking for a recent book by a qualified scholar which tells the whole story while reasonably addressing all of the issues, questions, claims or lies, by various actors and authors since 12/7/1941.

So far, no one has named such a book or author.

;-)