War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945
by Edward S. Miller
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Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange--the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, forumulated over the forty years prior to World War II. It recounts the struggles between ""thrusting"" and ""cautionary"" schools of strategy, the roles of outspoken leaders such as Dewey, Mahan, King, and MacArthur, and the adaptation of aviation and other technologies to the plan. The book shows that the show more strategy of Plan Orange was the basis of prewar U.S. naval development in training, ship and aircraft desig show lessTags
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Studing war plans is quite a recondite area of study, but Edward S. Miller has written a useful book on the American plan to defeat Japan in a one-on-one war. There are also several chapters discussing the way the war actually went with the addition of Allies to the two combatants according to the plans. It is well worth the time of the serious student of the war.
A history of the U. S. Navy's evolving naval plans relative to conducting a Pacific war with Japan. The plans developed after the acquisition of the Philippine Islands, and were based upon the recovery of same when captured by the Japanese.
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 359.03 — Social sciences Public administration & military science Naval forces and warfare Policy & Grand Strategy
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- VA50 .M53 — Naval Science Navies: Organization, distribution, naval situation Navies: Organization, distribution, naval situation United States
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