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Matloff, Maurice was born on June 18, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Ida (Glickhouse) Matloff.
(A description of wartime national planning and military s...)
A description of wartime national planning and military strategy as they affected the missions and dispositions of the U.S. Army in the defensive phase of coalition warfare.
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Within a generation the attitude and policy of the United States toward alliances have undergone a revolutionary reversal. The nation has passed from its traditional suspicion and fear of "entangling alliances" to a policy that heavily stakes its security and interests on the co-operation of other powers. In World War I the U.S. Government cautiously defined its relationship with the powers allied against Germany as that of an Associated Power. In World War II, though last to join the Grand Alliance, it virtually integrated its resources with those of the British Commonwealth and coordinated its strategy and war aims with the British and the USSR in the most powerful wartime partnership ever forged. Since 1945 it has emerged as the leader in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and has diligently sought allies and built up alliances all over the troubled world. The climax of its most intensive experience with coalition strategy came in the phase of World War II described in this volume, which should therefore have a special interest for all who are concerned with the implications of the revolution in U.S. foreign policy that has taken place in the twentieth century.
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This volume is a study of the evolution of American strategy before and during the first year of American participation in World War II. It is the story of planning by the War Department during that early and significant period in which the foundations of the strategy for the conduct of the war were established. The authors not only present the problems of the Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army and of his principal plans and operations officers, but also emphasize joint and combined problems—the reconciliation of the Army views on strategy with those of the Navy and the integration of American and British views and their adjustment to the military policies of other associated powers, notably the Soviet Union. It may seem to the reader that controversy and differences of opinion are stressed and that agreement and co-operative endeavor are slighted. Since planners are occupied with unsettled problems, their work necessarily involves differences of opinion. It is only when all sides of an issue are forcefully presented and the various solutions thereof closely scrutinized that the final plan has any validity. The reader must bear in mind that the differences related herein are those among comrades in arms who in the end always made the adjustments required of the members of a team engaged in a common enterprise. The execution of strategic decisions—the end result of debates, negotiations, and compromises set forth in the book—is narrated in the combat volumes of this series. Mr. Maurice Matloff and Mr. Edwin M. Snell collaborated in writing this volume. Mr. Snell was formerly an instructor in English at Harvard University and Mr. Matloff an instructor in History at Brooklyn College. Mr. Snell served in the Army and Mr. Matloff in the Army Air Forces during World War II. Both joined the Operations Division historical project of the War Department General Staff in 1946. Mr. Matloff is now the Chief, Strategic Plans Section, Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army.
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(This volume is a study of the evolution of American strat...)
This volume is a study of the evolution of American strategy before and during the first year of American participation in world War II. It is the story of planning by the War Department during that early and significant period in which the foundations of the strategy for the conduct of the war were established.
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Professional soldiers talk about logistics, amateurs about tactics could be the alternative title for this book. This narrative version of the US Army history gives a fascinating insight into the true nature of WWII. The limiting factor on all military operations in WWII was the availability of merchant shipping. The US chiefs would come to the negoiating table with the British poorly organised and poorly prepared for the demands of a global war. At the Arcadia conference the British, because they were prepared and had a fully operational planning structure forced the USA to remodel is military planning structure on that used by the British. The book will be of great interest to those outside of the military. It's about discussions and negotiations at the highest level, and how decsions were made. The pattern can be seen in made large corporate business decisions. The British when coming to the discussions were, in the words of the US Army history, consistently better prepared and better organised - and they invariablly won the arguement. It's an extraordinary book, not only about the relationships between the UK and USA but also about FDR and how he managed to restrain the ambitions of his generals by direct control of the the merchant shipping through the War Shipping Administration. Boring if you want a war story - extraordinarially informative if want to know the nuts and bolts of how the Allies won WWII.
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The real story of WWII. The Second World War is reduced to series of cardboard incidents and actions by television and the media - the reality of how the Allies won is quite different. It was about controlling shipping movment, port clearance, production priorities, all of which had to be co-ordinated. The actual battles and the weapons concerned come out as minor concerns of the strategic planners
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This volume is a study of the evolution of American strategy before and during the first year of American participation in World War II. It is the story of planning by the War Department during that early and significant period in which the foundations of the strategy for the conduct of the war were established. The authors not only present the problems of the Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army and of his principal plans and operations officers, but also emphasize joint and combined problems-the reconciliation of the Army views on strategy with those of the Navy and the integration of American and British views and their adjustment to the military policies of other associated powers, notably the Soviet Union.
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Matloff, Maurice was born on June 18, 1915 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph and Ida (Glickhouse) Matloff.
Bachelor of Arts (New York State scholar 1932-1936), Columbia College, 1936; Master of Arts (Harvard-Henry Ware Wales scholar), Harvard, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy (Edward Austin fellow, Francis Parkman fellow), Harvard, 1956; postgraduate, Yale, 1943-1944.
Instructor department history, Brooklyn College, 1939-1942;
associate professor, Brooklyn College, 1946;
senior historian operations division, War Department General Staff, Washington, 1946-1947;
senior historian, History division, Department Army, Washington, 1947-1949;
chief strategic plans section Office Chief of Military History, History division, Department Army, 1949-1960;
senior history adviser Post World World War II branch, History division, Department Army, 1960-1962;
chief Current History branch, History division, Department Army, 1962-1966;
chief General History branch, History division, Department Army, 1966-1968;
deputy chief historian, History division, Department Army, 1969-1970;
chief historian, History division, Department Army, 1970-1973;
chief historian United States Army Center Military History, History division, Department Army, 1973-1981. Lecturer U. Maryland., 1957-1971. Adjunct Professor American U., 1965-1968, Georgetown University, 1983-1993.
Visiting professor San Francisco State College, summer 1966, University of California, Davis, 1968-1969, U. Maryland., 1981-1982, Dartmouth College, spring 1977, United States Military Academy, 1982-1983. Distinguished visiting professor U. Georgia, spring 1974. Regents professor University of California, Berkeley, spring 1980.
Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1981-1982. Consultant government committees. Lecturer National War College, Army, Navy and Air war colleges, service academics, various universities.
Member board historians United States Committee for The Battle of Normandy Museum, 1987-1993, advisory county National History Intelligence Museum, 1986-1993, advisory county George C. Marshall Research Foundation, 1975-1993.
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(A description of wartime national planning and military s...)
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Served with Army of the United States, United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946. Member of the United States Commission Military History (former trustee), American History Association (historian, federal government committee 1958-1961, First Books program committee 1980-1982), Society for Military History (member nominating committee 1970-1972, trustee 1976-1979), Organisation American Historians, Society Historians American Foreign Rels., World World War II Studies Association (board directors), Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Gertrude Glickler, October 21, 1942. Children: Howard Bruce, Jeffrey Lewis, Jody Matloff Dove.