Allies and Adversaries : The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U. S. Strategy in World War II.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Code Names -- 1. The Armed Forces and National Policy before World War II -- Conflicts over ORANGE -- The Debate over Great Britain -- Embick and the Continentalist Alternative -- Civil-Military Coordination and Conflict -- The RAINBOW Plans -- Notes -- 2. New Strategies and Policies for a Coalition War, 1939-1941 -- Unilateral Hemispheric Defense: The Brief Consensus -- Plan Dog: Germany-First and Anglo-American Alliance -- Civil-Military Problems -- ABC-1 and RAINBOW 5: A Coalition Strategy -- Notes -- 3. Civil-Military and Coalition Conflicts, February-December 1941 -- Confusion and Conflict -- The Assault on British Strategy and the Victory Program -- The New Russian Pivot -- The Search for a Panacea -- Notes -- 4. Global Strategy Reconsidered, December 1941-July 1942 -- New Environments -- Strategic Options and Disagreements -- The Far East, the Soviet Union, and Army Cross-Channel Plans -- The Pacific-First Proposal -- Notes -- 5. The Great Strategic Debate, July 1942-January 1943 -- The President versus the Joint Chiefs -- The Joint Chiefs versus the British -- The Pacific-First Reality and the Specter of Soviet Defeat -- The Joint Chiefs against Each Other -- Notes -- 6. Britain as Adversary, January-October 1943 -- Coordinating Strategy with Policy: The New Committee Structure -- The Analysis of Conflicting Strategies and Policies -- Forging a New Strategic United Front -- Notes -- 7. Russia as Ally and Enigma, December 1942-October 1943 -- Origins of the Cooperative Policy -- The Confrontation Alternative -- The Enigma -- Early National and International Security Planning -- Notes -- 8. Civil-Military Coordination and Conflict, February 1942-November 1943 -- The Armed Forces versus the State Department-Again.

Postwar Policies and Demobilization Planning -- The Presidential Prod, JCS 570, and the Iowa Talks -- Notes -- 9. The Big Two, October 1943-September 1944 -- The Moscow-Cairo-Tehran Watershed -- The Joint Chiefs and a Soviet-AmericanWorld -- Civil-Military Conflict over the Mandated Islands -- Anti-Soviet Dissent -- Notes -- 10. National versus International Postwar Security and Civil-Military Relations, January 1944-January 1945 -- Politico-Military Coordination and Postwar Planning -- Postwar Plans and Conflicts -- Dumbarton Oaks -- Continued Conflict over Trusteeships -- Notes -- 11. Second Thoughts on the Allies, September 1944-April 1945 -- The Soviet Menace -- Maintenance of the Cooperative Approach -- Notes -- 12. Victory and Reassessment, April-August 1945 -- The April Reassessment -- Conflicts over Postwar Security -- Allied Relations and the War against Japan -- The July Reassessment -- Notes -- 13. Aftermath and Conclusions -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F-G -- H -- I-J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q-R -- S -- T-U -- V-W -- Y.

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