Defeating Japan : the Joint Chiefs of Staff and strategy in the Pacific War, 1943-1945
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Defeating Japan : the Joint Chiefs of Staff and strategy in the Pacific War, 1943-1945
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [199]-212
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish the war's objectives and help to define the nature of the peace to follow. They understood that policy was the 'guiding intelligence' for war, in Clausewitzian terms, and that to attempt to approach strategic problems was nonsensical.
Table of Contents
Political Considerations and the War against Japan 'One Part of the Larger Whole': Pacific War Strategy to the Trident Conference 'A Most Critical Summer': From Trident to Quadrant, 1943 Strategic Reconciliation at Sextant Lengthening Political Shadows: Strategy in the Pacific, 1944 Assault versus Siege: The Debate over the Final Strategy for the Defeat of Japan
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