Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 (United States Army in World War II: The War Department, Volume 3)

xvi, 454 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 3 charts, 12 illustrations, 7 appendices, bibliographical note, glossaries, and index. "In World War II the production of strategic plans became a major industry in the military establishment. The main theme of this book is the history of that industry, as far as the War Department was concerned, to the end of 1942" (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 6-8). Includes discussion of the interaction of deployment and strategic concepts, coordination thereof in light of immediate military demands, logistical feasibility, problems of a two-front global war, differences between and integration of Army and Navy, the Victory Program, Pacific warfare, the invasion of North Africa, the Casablanca Conference, etc.