American Strategy in World War II: A ReconsiderationAn examination of the eight major decisions made by U. S. and Britain for conducting the War. |
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... offensive ; attack from a secure base at the end of America's shortest line of supply . The British , eager to have American strength committed in Europe and con- centrated in England at once , agreed in principle . But they quickly ...
... offensive ; attack from a secure base at the end of America's shortest line of supply . The British , eager to have American strength committed in Europe and con- centrated in England at once , agreed in principle . But they quickly ...
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... offensive action in Europe in 1942. But if he was animated by nonmilitary considerations , he had made a move that was highly politic in a military sense if only because it broke a dangerous Anglo - American deadlock over strategy . It ...
... offensive action in Europe in 1942. But if he was animated by nonmilitary considerations , he had made a move that was highly politic in a military sense if only because it broke a dangerous Anglo - American deadlock over strategy . It ...
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... offensive to which it refers is the only kind of offensive that is truly strategic . What the term , as used in World War II , actually meant was massive and sys- tematic bombing of the enemy's war economy and of the enemy population's ...
... offensive to which it refers is the only kind of offensive that is truly strategic . What the term , as used in World War II , actually meant was massive and sys- tematic bombing of the enemy's war economy and of the enemy population's ...
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