Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1944, المجلد 4

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Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1959
 

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الصفحة 28 - Your primary object will be the progressive destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial, and economic system, and the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point •where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened.
الصفحة 576 - The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume I The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume II The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Japan The...
الصفحة 536 - Personally and aside from all logistic, tactical or strategical implications, I would be loath to hazard American lives for purely political purposes.
الصفحة 440 - I fail to see how an operation against Sumatra and Malaya, requiring tremendous resources and forces, can possibly be mounted until after the conclusion of the war in Europe. Lucrative as a successful "Culverin" might be, there appears much more to be gained by employing all the resources we now have available in an all-out drive into Upper Burma so that we can build up our air strength in China and ensure the essential support for our westward advance to the Formosa-China-Luzon area.
الصفحة 525 - ... change more comparable indeed with that occasioned by the fall of Rome than with any other change occurring during the succeeding fifteen hundred years.
الصفحة 11 - Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948); while the strongly anti-Stimson view taken by Richard N.
الصفحة 214 - We cannot now rationally hope to be able to cross the Channel and come to grips with our German enemy under a British commander. His, Prime Minister and his Chief of the Imperial Staff are frankly at variance with such a proposal. The shadows of Passchendaele and Dunkerque still hang too heavily over the imagination of these leaders of his government. Though they have rendered lip service to the operation...
الصفحة 474 - Finally, for purely political considerations over here, I should never survive even a slight setback in "OVERLORD...
الصفحة 493 - I do not want the United States to have the post-war burden of reconstituting France, Italy and the Balkans. This is not our natural task at a distance of 3,500 miles or more. It is definitely a British task in which the British are far more vitally interested than we are.
الصفحة 493 - Do please don't' ask me to keep any American forces in France. I just cannot do it! I would have to bring them all back home. As I suggested before, I denounce and protest the paternity of Belgium, France, and Italy. You really ought to bring up and discipline your own children. In view of the fact that they may be your bulwark in future days, you should at least pay for their schooling now!"36 Nor would the American public tolerate a common AngloAmerican policy toward Europe.

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