Submitted by: Robert Walters
HUAWEI'S AN ASSET ALL RIGHT—BUT IT'S NOT OUR ASSETby Claudia RosettTechnology can be a beautiful thing. But in the matter of who wields it, it can be vital to distinguish friend from foe. The late historian Samuel Eliot Morison, in his classic 15-volume naval history of World War II, bequeathed us a "grimly humorous" anecdote from the aftermath of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan -- in which, in order to surprise Japan with a retaliatory bombing less than five months after Pearl Harbor, two U.S. aircraft carriers, the Hornet and the Enterprise, sailed much closer to Japanese waters than Tokyo was expecting. After U.S. bombers took off from the deck of the Hornet, the carriers turned for home. They were sighted by a crew member of a Japanese patrol ship, who -- mistaking them for Japanese aircraft carriers -- went below deck to rouse his sleeping skipper, telling him to come look at "our beautiful carriers."