Guardians of Empire : The U. S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940

by Linn, Brian McAllister

• ISBN13: 9780807823217
• ISBN10: 080782321X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

In a comprehensive study of four decades of military policy, Brian McAllister Linn offers the first detailed history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. Most accounts focus on the months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. By examining the years prior to the outbreak of war, Linn provides a new perspective on the complex evolution of events in the Pacific. Exhaustively researched,Guardians of Empiretraces the development of U.S. defense policy in the region, concentrating on strategy, tactics, internal security, relations with local communities, and military technology.Linn challenges earlier studies which argue that army officers either ignored or denigrated the Japanese threat and remained unprepared for war. He demonstrates instead that from 1907 onward military commanders in both Washington and the Pacific were vividly aware of the danger, that they developed a series of plans to avert it, and that they in fact identified--even if they could not solve--many of the problems that would become tragically apparent on 7 December 1941.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(4)
Acknowledgements	xv
1 The Guardians Arrive	5	(18)
2 The Savage Wars of Peace	23	(28)
3 The Pacific Army	51	(28)
4 The Dilemmas of Pacific Defense	79	(36)
5 The Pacific Army and the Community	115	(30)
6 Manpower and Internal Security	145	(20)
7 Orange to Rainbow, 1919-1940	165	(20)
8 The Pacific Army in the 1920s	185	(18)
9 Army Aviation and Pacific Defense	203	(16)
10 The Last Years of the Pacific Army	219	(28)
Conclusion	247	(6)
Appendix. U. S. Army Manpower, 1902-1941	253	(2)
Notes	255	(52)
Bibliography	307	(28)
Index	355