 In the face of these warnings, a wartime posture of dispersing forces across new and different sites, hardening facilities, actively camouflaging the dispersed and hardened locations would be prudent. By operating Defense Department facilities in a wartime manner, a strong message of readiness and deterrence would be communicated. But history is repeating itself. In early 1941, as we saw Japan getting more hostile, Army General Short and Navy Admiral Kimmel were sent to prepare for Pearl Harbor.