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Article: Allies and Adversaries: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II.(Book Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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By Mark A. Stoler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 380 pp.
U.S. and Allied military strategy for World War II has presumptive clarity, since we know how the Allies won. Events need not have developed in the ways we know so well, however, and both strategy and policy at the highest levels remained in flux throughout the war. By the end of 1945, fundamental changes had occurred in the world power distribution, in U.S. commitment to lasting global engagement, in the understandings of leaders about those facts, and in the relationship between civilian and military leaders in shaping foreign policy.
Combining and significantly extending ...