Defeating Japan

The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in the Pacific War, 1943-1945
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-02521-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brower, Charles F

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Political Considerations and the War against Japan 'One Part of the Larger Whole': Pacific War Strategy to the Trident Conference 'A Most Critical Summer': From Trident to Quadrant, 1943 Strategic Reconciliation at Sextant Lengthening Political Shadows: Strategy in the Pacific, 1944 Assault versus Siege: The Debate over the Final Strategy for the Defeat of Japan

Über Autor(innen)

Charles F. Brower is Professor of History and International Affairs at Virginia Military Institute, USA, where he teaches courses in American foreign policy and strategy and holds the Henry King Burgwyn Chair in Military History.