Strategic planning for coalition warfare, 1943-1944 /

A continuation of the strategic planning story that describes how the Army came to grips with the problems of the offensive phase of coalition warfare. The midwar international conferences are covered in detail.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matloff, Maurice, 1915-1993
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.], 1959
Series:United States Army in World War II. War Department ; pt. 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The basis of strategy
  • Casablanca: beginning of an era: January 1943
  • Advance in the Mediterranean: January-May 1943
  • The search for a formula
  • Mounting pressure in the Pacific and Far East: January-May 1943
  • The new look in strategic planning
  • The Trident Conference: new pattens, May 1943
  • From Husky to Avalanche, May-Mid-August, 1943
  • Crossraods in the European War
  • Current plans and future operations in the War against Japan: June-August 1943
  • Quadrant: shaping the patterns: August 1943
  • "The Mediterranean Again": August-November 1943
  • Strategy and command in the War against Germany
  • British-American plans and Soviet expectations: August-November 1943
  • Strategic strands in the War against Japan: August-November 1943
  • Final rehearsals en route to Cairo
  • Cairo-Tehran: a goal is reached: November-December 1943
  • Strategic inventory 1943
  • Concentration for the big blow: January-May 1944
  • The second front and the secondary war; the CBI: January-May 1944
  • The second front and the secondary war: the Pacific: January-May 1944
  • The promise of military victory: D-Day to September 1944
  • Political shadows
  • Octagon: end of an era
  • Epilogue
  • Appendixes.