Allies and adversaries
Subtitle: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. strategy in World War II
By: Mark A. Stoler.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff -- History -- 20th century.; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.; Strategy -- History -- 20th century.; Civil-military relations -- United States.; United States -- Military relations -- Foreign countries.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.
Description: "Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335-355) and index.