This is

CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Craig Simons,

emeritus Professor of History from the U.S. Naval Academy.

His new book is Nimitz at War,

command leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. This is a book that can be used by current

officers in the US Navy and retired and future

to understand the relationships between the men who were given a task without adequate

resources to restart the United States Navy in the Pacific after the

Pearl Harbor attack. Immediately Ernest King, the Cominch, says attack, attack, attack.

He wants to get out there and punch. Nimitz doesn't have much of a fleet now.

The battleships who had been regarded as the strength of all navies, the gun club, are either a four of the number of very badly damaged

or sunk, including the Arizona, four are badly damaged.

So he has aircraft carriers.

What is it that King wants him to do and this is a good

time to introduce Chester Nimitz's idea of calculated risk, Professor?

Yeah, calculated risk.

That's an interesting concept.

Nimitz came up with it when it was still a student at the U.S. Naval War College in the 1920s, and

it's a relatively simple concept.

It is that you don't take a risk that's greater than the

likely benefit that will result from assuming that risk and and it's not something that you can calculate.

The word calculation is a bit misleading.

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