Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Roberta Wohlstetter (American Historian)

Roberta Wohlstetter (1912–2007,) née Roberta Mary Morgan, was an American historian. She was a prominent analyst of military intelligence and foreign policy.

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Wohlstetter graduated from Vassar in 1933 and received a master’s in psychology at Columbia in 1936, and a master’s in comparative literature at Radcliffe in 1937.

Willstatter worked as an analyst with the policy research group RAND Corporation 1948–65. She is celebrated for her influential work Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1962) on the intelligence failures before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The book won Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize for American history.

Wohlstetter later studied the Persian Gulf for the Defense Department and taught at the University of Chicago, Barnard College, and Howard University. Her other works include Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight (1965) and International Terrorism: Kidnapping to Win Friends and Influence People (1974.)

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In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.
Roberta Wohlstetter
Topics: Foresight

After an event, a signal is always crystal clear; we can now see what disaster it was signaling since the disaster has occurred. Before the event, it is obscure and pregnant with conflicting meanings.
Roberta Wohlstetter

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