NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVESTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 covers the work of then Maj. Albert C. Wedemeyer, the principal author of the Victory Plan. In just forty-eight months America raised and equipped a modern army seemingly overnight, a feat that owed much to sound military planning. As Wedemeyer makes clear, mobilization transcends purely military matters and must be understood to embrace the capacity of nations. His work underscores the fact that even in 1941 warfare had become so vast in scope, so expensive, and so technologically complex that nations could never again afford to maintain in time of peace the armies needed in time of war. The conclusion seems inescapable: The United States Army must keep mobilization planning at the center of all its military planning. Military planners and all those studying mobilization and logistics will benefit from processes Wedemeyer and his colleagues used in reaching their decisions on the units and material needed. The Victory Plan provides a clear picture of how they approached the challenge of preparing for modern war. This text includes photographs, footnotes, a bibliography, and an index. This book may appeal to military leaders, active duty soldiers, strategic analysts, and students researching the reform of military operations and future military planning priorities for War and Politics courses as part of American Government, Social Studies, or History high school credit requirements, or military science, political science courses or leadership course certificates. Related products: World War II resources collection is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-ii The State-Society/Citizen Relationship in Security Analysis: Implications for Planning and Implementation of U.S. Intervention and Peace/State-Building Operations is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01144-3 Operating in the Gray Zone: An Alternative Paradigm for U.S. Military Strategy is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01183-4 Marine Corps Planning Process can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01087-1 The U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management, June 1987-December 1989 -- Paperback format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00470-4 Other products produced by the U.S. Army, Center of Military History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061

An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 (American Forces in Action)

Biographies & Memoirs

Kirkpatrick, Charles E.

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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Discusses the United States Army's campaigns to defend the Western Hemisphere during World War 2. Includes color maps,black and white and color photographs, and suggestions for further readings.
Each brochure describes the strategic setting, traces the operations of the major American units involved, and analyzes the impact of the campaign on future operations. High School students and above, plus historians, especially military historians, political scientists, military leaders and soldiers, and World War II scholars and enthusiasts may be interested in this volume.
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Defense of the Americas (U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

History

Americas

CMH 70-94-1. Outlines a decade of change for V Corps, and the physical and intellectual tools it evolved to accomplish its changing missions.

Ruck It Up!: The Post-Cold War Transformation of V Corps, 1990-2001

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Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 - Scholar's Choice Edition

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A striking feature of World War II was America's ability to raise and equip a modern army seemingly overnight.  Emerging from its negligible base in 1941 and competing with the needs of the other services and Allies, the Army stood in just forty-eight months at 8 million men with equipment second to none.  Such a prodigious feat owes much to sound military planning, as The Victory Plan of 1941 carefully demonstrates.  But this study also underscores the fact that even in 1941 warfare had become so vast in scope, so expensive, and so technologically complex that nations could never again afford to maintain in time of peace the armies needed in time of war.  As Albert Wedemeyer, the remarkable Army officer who wrote the 1941 plan, makes clear, mobilization transcends purely military matters and must be understood to embrace the total capacity of nations.  The conclusion seems inescapable: the United States Army must keep mobilization planning at the center of all its military planning.  The experience of the nation's total mobilization for World War II offers good counsel, not so much in its details of numbers and types of units raised or materiel required as in its description of the thought process Wedemeyer and his colleagues used in reaching these decisions.  I recommend the following analysis of Wedemeyer's vital work to military planners and to all those studying mobilization and logistics.  It will provide a clear picture of how our recent predecessors approached the complex challenge of preparing for modern war, a challenge that remains with us today. Harold W. Nelson Colonel, USA Chief of Military History

An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941

University Press of the Pacific

World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the interest of military scholars and historians, as well as its veterans, a generation of Americans has grown to maturity largely unaware of the political, social, and military implications of a war that, more than any other, united us as a people with a common purpose. Highly relevant today, World War II has much to teach us, not only about the profession of arms, but also about military preparedness, global strategy, and combined operations in the coalition war against fascism. During the next several years, the U.S. Army will participate in the nation’s 50th anniversary commemoration of World War II. The commemoration will include the publication of various materials to help educate Americans about that war. The works produced will provide great opportunities to learn about and renew pride in an Army that fought so magnificently in what has been called “the mighty endeavor.” World War II was waged on land, on sea, and in the air over several diverse theaters of operation for approximately six years. The following essay is one of a series of campaign studies highlighting those struggles that, with their accompanying suggestions for further reading, are designed to introduce you to one of the Army’s significant military feats from that war.

Defense of the Americas (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

“An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941”covers the work of then Maj. Albert C. Wedemeyer, the principal author of the Victory Plan. In just forty-eight months America raised and equipped a modern army seemingly overnight, a feat that owed much to sound military planning. As Wedemeyer makes clear, mobilization transcends purely military matters and must be understood to embrace the capacity of nations. His work underscores the fact that even in 1941 warfare had become so vast in scope, so expensive, and so technologically complex that nations could never again afford to maintain in time of peace the armies needed in time of war. The conclusion seems inescapable: The United States Army must keep mobilization planning at the center of all its military planning. Military planners and all those studying mobilization and logistics will benefit from processes Wedemeyer and his colleagues used in reaching their decisions on the units and material needed. The Victory Plan provides a clear picture of how they approached the challenge of preparing for modern war.

"Ruck It Up!": The Post-Cold War Transformation of V Corps, 1990-2001

An impressively illustrated &amp; detailed wall chart, chronicling lists the events of World War 2. Subjects: World War II. World War, 1939-1945. Fine copy in the original color-printed boards.

World War II Wall Chart

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An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 (American Forces in Action)

Defense of the Americas (U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

Ruck It Up!: The Post-Cold War Transformation of V Corps, 1990-2001

Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 - Scholar's Choice Edition

An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941

Defense of the Americas (The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II)

An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941

"Ruck It Up!": The Post-Cold War Transformation of V Corps, 1990-2001

World War II Wall Chart