CHIEF OF STAFF: PREWAR PLANS AND PREPARATIONS
Mark Skinner Watson
U.S. Army in World War II
CMH Pub 1-1, Cloth
1950, 2003; 551 pages, tables, charts, illustrations, bibliographical note, glossary, index
Not Available through GPO sales.
An account of the nation's unpreparedness for war and the efforts of General Marshall and his staff to correct it with maximum dispatch. The powers of the Chief of Staff and their origins are described.
| Published: | August 21, 2024 |
The U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a subordinate command of Army University within the Training and Transformation Command (T2COM). CMH forges a single, comprehensive historical enterprise unparalleled in the U.S. armed forces and is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the United States Army. Traditionally, this mission has meant recording the official history of the Army in both peace and war, while advising the Army Staff on historical matters. This organization's enduring purpose is clear: to deliver full-spectrum decision support, steward the Army’s institutional memory, and operationalize history for the future force.
The eight volumes comprising The War Department subseries describe the achievements of the United States in becoming the Allied "arsenal of democracy" during the Second World War. These volumes also examine how the process of establishing and attaining truly astronomical war production objectives forever changed the structure of the United States economy. Highlighted are the myriad of problems associated with the allocation of limited resources and the organization and the processes involved in the execution of global war strategy. The volumes reveal the war as a transitional period for the nation, an era when the suspicions and fears of entangling alliances were replaced by an era of international cooperation and integration. This subseries thus traces the story of the hopes and fears, the triumphs and struggles of the Army confronting a world at war, and the monumental changes it undertook to meet that challenge.
