Formed soon after Pearl Harbor, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. Their functions grew to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns during World War II, however, when the military voice assumed an unprecedented importance. Analysing the wartime rise of military influence in US foreign policy, Mark Stoler focuses on the evolution of and debates over US 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 post-war national security policy.

This title won the 2002 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History.

About the Author
Mark A. Stoler is professor of history at the University of Vermont in Burlington.


Book Information
ISBN 9780807855072
Author Mark A. Stoler
Format Paperback
Page Count 408
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 523g