As to Prange's ability to counter so-called conspiracy theories, no support in this corner.
Also, comment please on the continued denial of access to any of the pre-Pearl Harbor Japanese naval "raw" intercepts to this day.
Probably because they would show gross incompetence and negligence on the part of the US Government.
I am not a defender of Roosevelt. I do believe that he did purposely try to provoke Japan into a war. I also believe that he did not take steps to adequately defend the fleet in Hawaii. However, one can believe all this without believing FDR deviously engineered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese probably had the capability on Dec. 7, 1941 to so thoroughly destroy our naval facilities in Hawaii as to make it impossible for us to fight a war in the Pacific. They also might have had the capability to invade and capture Hawaii, thereby putting the west coast of the US at risk.
In order to believe that Roosevelt engineered the attack on Pearl Harbor, one must believe that Roosevelt somehow knew ahead of time that the Japanese would make an attack that was damaging, but not so damaging as to take us out of the war. But how could he possibly have known that?