MAYBE you can analyse the Pearl Harbour attack,and intimate from it that the way the Pacific fleet was deployed,that,yes,it WAS a kind of trap that the Japanese HAD to take.A chance to knock out the Pacific fleet.It was a strange coincidence that the carriers were at sea i suppose,yet all the old battlewagons were conveniently at anchor.A way that Roosevelt could draw the USA into the war,a war he knew in Europe would eventually draw it in like it or not.Within 6 months after MIdway,4 of the 6 carriers(Kaga,Akagi,Hiryu,Soryu),that attacked Pearl were sunk,and from that moment on,the Japs were