Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II

by Stoler, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780807825570
• ISBN10: 0807825573
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

The wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy Formed soon after Pearl Harbor, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. Their functions grew to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns during World War II, however, when the military voice assumed an unprecedented importance. Analyzing the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy, Mark Stoler focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy.

Author Biography

Mark A. Stoler is professor of history at the University of Vermont.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Abbreviations	xix
Code Names	xxi
The Armed Forces and National Policy before World War II	1	(22)
New Strategies and Policies for a Coalition War, 1939-1941	23	(18)
Civil-Military and Coalition Conflicts, February-December 1941	41	(23)
Global Strategy Reconsidered, December 1941-July 1942	64	(20)
The Great Strategic Debate, July 1942-January 1943	84	(19)
Britain as Adversary, January-October 1943	103	(20)
Russia as Ally and Enigma, December 1942-October 1943	123	(23)
Civil-Military Coordination and Conflict, February 1942-November 1943	146	(19)
The Big Two, October 1943-September 1944	165	(26)
National versus International Postwar Security and Civil-Military Relations, January 1944-January 1945	191	(20)
Second Thoughts on the Allies, September 1944-April 1945	211	(20)
Victory and Reassessment, April-August 1945	231	(27)
Aftermath and Conclusions	258	(13)
Notes	271	(64)
Bibliography	335	(22)
Index	357