The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War
1997; The MIT Press; Volume: 77; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0026-4148
Autores Tópico(s)Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
ResumoAMERICAN WAR PLANS, Edited and introduced by Steven T. Ross. Garland Publishing Inc., New York. 1995. 1919-1941: Volume 1, Peacetime War Plans, 1919-1935. 212 pages, 589.00. Volume 2, Plans for War Against British Empire and Japan, Red, Orange and Red-Orange Plans, 1923- 1938, 412 pages, $139.00. Volume 3, Plans to Meet Axis Threat, 1939-1940, 345 pages, $123.00. Volume 4, Coalition War Plans and Hemispheric Defense Plans, 1940-1941. 365 pages, $127.00. Volume 5, Plans for Global War, Rainbow-5 and Victory Program, 1941, $110.00. Volume 6, American War Plans,19451950, 189 pages, 1996. $32.50. Frank Cass, London. Distributed by Intemational Specialized Book Services Inc., Portland, OR. In five American War Plans volumes published by Garland Publishing, Steven T. Ross reviews development of 21st-century US military strategy. With little accompanying narrative, these volumes provide declassified war plan photocopies from National Archives. Ross' sixth volume, published by Frank Cass, is a detailed narrative of war planning before Korean War but without supporting plans. Despite contrasting styles, all six volumes are useful research resources for military historians and strategists. Ross' books look at evolution of Joint Board, made up of US Army and Navy war planners, which was established in 1903 mainly because of poor Army and Navy staff performance during Spanish-American War. Unfortunately, board scuttled itself on eve of World War I because of Army-Navy bickering over Pacific region strategy. After World War I, a reorganized Joint Board guided US contingency and war planning until World War II began. Army and Navy chiefs and their plans and operations deputies developed strategies for peacetime contingencies and for launching US World War II effort. reader probably will go to key World War II plans first. war plans against British Empire and Japan-Red, Orange and Red-Orangewere early planning scenarios. For example, Plan Red-Orange pointed out logistic, operation and force structure requirements. Ross shows how Plan Rainbow 5 was transformed from a major regional European contingency plan to a global war plan. After a US, British and Canadian agreement in 1941, Rainbow 5 became framework for strategic global plan-win in Europe first while defending in Far East. Ross writes, The real value of plan . . . was in training staff officers to cope with range of problems associated with global war. Of equal interest are US plans for dealing with lesser contingencies. Plan Yellow was developed to land a China Relief Expedition of 40,000 troops to maintain communications along railroad from Peking to sea. theater of operations encompassed the territorial limits of China. …
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