American Grand Strategy In The Mediterranean During World War Ii
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Author |
: Andrew Buchanan |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1107693527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781107693524 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean During World War II by : Andrew Buchanan
This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of U.S. engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in a peripheral theater, and that Washington had a major grand-strategic interest in the region. By the end of the war the Mediterranean was essentially an American lake, and the United States had substantial political and economic interests extending from North Africa, via Italy and the Balkans, to the Middle East. This book examines the military, diplomatic, and economic processes by which this hegemonic position was assembled and consolidated. It discusses the changing character of the Anglo-American alliance, the establishment of post-war spheres of influence, the nature of presidential leadership, and the common interest of all the leaders of the Grand Alliance in blocking the development of potentially revolutionary movements emerging from the chaos of war, occupation, and economic breakdown.
Author |
: Andrew Buchanan |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 2016-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107661356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107661358 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II by : Andrew Buchanan
This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Andrew Buchanan argues that the United States was far from being a reluctant participant in a 'peripheral' theater, and that Washington had a major grand-strategic interest in the region. By the end of the war the Mediterranean was essentially an American lake, and the United States had substantial political and economic interests extending from North Africa, via Italy and the Balkans, to the Middle East. This book examines the military, diplomatic, and economic processes by which this hegemonic position was assembled and consolidated. It discusses the changing character of the Anglo-American alliance, the establishment of post-war spheres of influence, the nature of presidential leadership, and the common interest of all the leaders of the 'Grand Alliance' in blocking the development of potentially revolutionary movements emerging from the chaos of war, occupation, and economic breakdown.
Author |
: Michael Howard |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 112 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89048379770 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War by : Michael Howard
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: Kent Roberts Greenfield |
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Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000023014039 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Strategy in World War II by : Kent Roberts Greenfield
This book presents interpretations, reflections, corrections, and questions concerning the American strategy in World War II. The attention is focused on grand strategy, that is, on strategy at the highest level of outlook and decision.
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: Richard M. Leighton |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 36 |
Release |
: 1960 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:30000001729361 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis OVERLORD Versus the Mediterranean at the Cairo-Tehran Conferences by : Richard M. Leighton
Author |
: James Ramsay Montagu Butler |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D005711598 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grand Strategy by : James Ramsay Montagu Butler
Author |
: Mark A. Stoler |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2004-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807862308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807862304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Allies and Adversaries by : Mark A. Stoler
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He 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 as well as wartime strategy.
Author |
: Peter R. Mansoor |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2016-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107136021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107136024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grand Strategy and Military Alliances by : Peter R. Mansoor
A broad-ranging study of the relationship between alliances and the conduct of grand strategy, examined through historical case studies.
Author |
: Norman Henry Gibbs |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556009450297 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grand Strategy: June 1941-September 1942, by J. M. A. Gwyer and J. R. M. Butler. 2 pts by : Norman Henry Gibbs
Author |
: Andrew N. Buchanan |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 541 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:773344353 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Have Become Mediterraneanites by : Andrew N. Buchanan
From the Torch landings in North Africa in 1942 to D-Day in June 1944 the Mediterranean basin saw the largest overseas deployment of U.S. troops outside the Pacific. Moreover, the United States, in an adversarial alliance with Britain, enjoyed considerable success there: Axis forces were driven from North Africa; Mussolini was ousted and--eventually--a liberal government established in Rome, heading off potentially revolutionary upheavals; an American-equipped French army was returned to France. Other successes were less obvious, but nonetheless significant: American economic inducements helped keep Spain out of the war, and Washington, utilizing covert operations as a lever for diplomatic intervention, reached into the Balkans. Everywhere American money followed American arms, establishing networks of trade stretching from the oil-rich Middle East to the Western Basin. These economic relationships, interwoven with a permanent postwar military presence, gave Washington a commanding regional position in the early years of the Cold War. Yet for all Washington's success, American intervention in the Mediterranean has long been viewed as a mere adjunct to campaigns in France and Germany, at best a useful preparation for the main event, at worst a protracted diversion from it. This perception is rooted both in contemporary divisions--particularly those between President Roosevelt and his chiefs of staff--and in Cold War renderings of debates between American leaders and their British counterparts. This study, based on a re-examination of the processes of Allied strategic decision-making and on a reappraisal of its relationship to broader military, political, and economic developments, reasserts the importance of the Mediterranean to the development Washington's wartime grand strategy and to the realization of American hegemony in Western Europe. It also highlights the role of leadership, operating within historically determined circumstances, in shaping deep impulses towards the extension of national power. Particularly during the critical months of its inception, President Roosevelt carried the drive towards active American engagement in the Mediterranean virtually single-handedly, and in the face of fierce opposition from his military advisers. His drive, I argue, was informed not only by immediate strategic and political considerations, but also by a projection of "Americanism" that would ultimately shape the postwar capitalist world and America's hegemonic position within it.