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Strategy and compromise / Samuel Eliot Morison.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1958]Copyright date: �1958Edition: First editionDescription: 120 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Strategy and compromise.LOC classification:
  • D743 .M71
Contents:
I. The war in Europe. Strategy, higher strategy, and tactics. Mistakes in strategy. Basic strategic decisions. Opposing concepts for defeating Germany. German submarine and Allied antisubmarine strategy. The invasion of France and the Italian Campaign. Operation OVERLORD. Operation DRAGOON. Conclusion on Europe -- II. The war in the Pacific. Initial strategic blunders. "Victory Disease". The strategic bargain at Casablanca. American deployment in the Pacific and in Europe compared. Four roads to Tokyo. The master plan for the defeat of Japan. Offensive operations begin. Revised plan for defeating Japan, December 1943. Philippines or Formosa. The battle for Leyte Gulf. The final offensive. Atomic bomb or invasion of Japan? Conclusion.
Summary: Analyzes the major strategic decisions which came up before the American Joint Chiefs of Staff and their British counterpart during the World War.
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"An Atlantic Monthly Press book"

I. The war in Europe. Strategy, higher strategy, and tactics. Mistakes in strategy. Basic strategic decisions. Opposing concepts for defeating Germany. German submarine and Allied antisubmarine strategy. The invasion of France and the Italian Campaign. Operation OVERLORD. Operation DRAGOON. Conclusion on Europe -- II. The war in the Pacific. Initial strategic blunders. "Victory Disease". The strategic bargain at Casablanca. American deployment in the Pacific and in Europe compared. Four roads to Tokyo. The master plan for the defeat of Japan. Offensive operations begin. Revised plan for defeating Japan, December 1943. Philippines or Formosa. The battle for Leyte Gulf. The final offensive. Atomic bomb or invasion of Japan? Conclusion.

Analyzes the major strategic decisions which came up before the American Joint Chiefs of Staff and their British counterpart during the World War.

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