" ...He should have appreciated that we had a large number of assets assigned to his command, and he should have used some of them to establish adequate pickets and responses."
neglects some specific facts.
For example, during 1941 fully a third of the Pacific Fleet was transferred to the Atlantic to support the convoying of Lend-Lease war materiels - these included the majority of Fleet's oilers. In this same period, over 200 PBYs also went to the USSR, again under Lead-Lease, while Pearl Harbor got very few and even less spare parts, ..., etc.
For more details on the types/numbers of "assets" and their fighting capacity - see Gannon's "Pearl Harbor Betrayed" from 2001.