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Summary:

This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish the war's objectives and help to define the nature of the peace to follow. They understood that policy was the 'guiding intelligence' for war, in Clausewitzian terms, and that to attempt to approach strategic problems was nonsensical.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Political Considerations and the War against Japan
• 2. "One Part of the Larger Whole": Pacific War Strategy to the TRIDENT Conference
• 3. "A Most Critical Summer": From Trident to Quadrant, 1943
• 4. Strategic Reconciliation at Sextant
• 5. Lengthening Political Shadows: Strategy in the Pacific, 1944
• Maps and Photographs
• 6. Assault versus Siege: The Debate over the Final Strategy for the Defeat of Japan
• 7. Sophisticated Strategists.

Author/Creator:

Brower, Charles F., 1946-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Defeating Japan: the Joint Chiefs of Staff and strategy in the Pacific war, 1943-1945 [by Brower, C.F.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Defeating Japan [by Brower, C.F.] (New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 — ISBN 9781137025210; LCCN 2012011996)

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 — United States

United States Joint Chiefs of Staff — History — 20th century

Strategy — History — 20th century

Pacific Area — Strategic aspects

World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Japan

World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Pacific Area

Military planning — United States — History — 20th century

United States — Military relations — Great Britain

Great Britain — Military relations — United States

United States Joint Chiefs of Staff

World War (1939-1945)

1900-1999

Strategic aspects of individual places

Military campaigns

Military planning

Military relations

Strategy

United States

Pacific Area

Great Britain

Japan

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

D769.2 .B76 2012

ISBNs:

9781137025227 (electronic bk.)
1137025220 (electronic bk.)
1137025212 [Invalid]
9781137025210 [Invalid]
9781283737715 [Invalid]
128373771X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

815767460

Other Control Numbers:

501045 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp9675240