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Global logistics and strategy, 1940-1943 / by Richard M. Leighton and Robert W. Coakley.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Leighton, Richard M., author.
- Coakley, Robert W., author.
- Series:
- CMH pub ; 1-5.
- United States Army in World War II. War Department
- United States Army in World War II. The War Department
- CMH pub ; 1-5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--Supplies and stores--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Transportation--History--20th century.
- United States. War Department--History--20th century.
- United States. War Department.
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Logistics--United States.
- Logistics.
- Armed Forces--Transportation.
- Armed Forces--Supplies and stores.
- Equipment and supplies.
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 780 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 1995.
- Summary:
- U.S. Army logistics, primarily of ground forces, in its relation to global strategy; the treatment is from the viewpoint of the central administration in Washington--Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff, the War Department General Staff, and the Services of Supply.
- Contents:
- Introductory: Logistics: the world and the thing
- PART ONE: THE NEUTRALITY PERIOD: Rearmament and foreign aid before Lend-Lease
- War plans and emergency preparations
- The Army and early Lend-Lease operations
- The broadening pattern of Lend-Lease operations
- Widening commitments
- PART TWO: CRISIS: Pearl Harbor and early deployment
- Improvisation in the Pacific
- PART THREE: THE EMERGENCE OF POLICY AND METHOD: Strategy, production goals, and shipping
- The machinery of logistical co-ordination and administration
- Lend-Lease as an instrument of coalition war
- The Anglo-American munitions pool
- The Army's system of requirements and controlled distribution
- The support of overseas operations
- PART FOUR: BUILD-UP AND EARLY OFFENSIVES: Build-up in the British Isles, first phase
- Turning point in the Pacific
- The descent on North Africa
- PART FIVE: THEATERS OF FOREIGN AID: The Anglo-American orbit
- China, Burma, and India
- The long road to Russia, I
- The long road to Russia, II
- PART SIX: THE CASABLANCA PERIOD: STRATEGIC PLANS AND LOGICAL METHOD: War production and shipping: year's end outlook
- Economy and stabilization
- Joint logistical planning and co-ordination
- Casablanca and the strategic-logistical debate
- After Casablanca
- PART SEVEN: CONCLUSION: Logistical planning and its end products
- APPENDICES: A: Shipping terminology and planning data: 1942-43
- B: Procurement: 1940-43
- C: Lend Lease transfers
- D: Number of vessels and cargo tonnage shipped from United States to USSR: 22 June 1941-30 June 1943
- E: Overseas deployment
- F: Overseas supply
- G: Supply responsibilities of the ports of embarkation
- H: Shpping losses and gains
- I: Growth of the service establishment: 1942.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 743-750) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from PDF title page (CMH, viewed August 16, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Leighton, Richard M. Global logistics and strategy, 1940-1943.
- OCLC:
- 795359239
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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