TY  - BOOK
AU  - GOLUB Grant
TI  - The Eagle and the Lion: : reassessing Anglo-American strategic planning and the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for World War II
PY  - 2023///
KW  - GRAND STRATEGY
KW  - SECOND WORLD WAR
N2  - Many accounts of the formation of American and British grand strategy during World War II between the fall of France and the Pearl Harbor attacks stress the differences between the two sides’ strategic thinking. These accounts argue that while the Americans favored a ‘direct’ Germany-first approach to defeating the Axis powers, the British preferred the ‘indirect’ or ‘peripheral’ method. However, a review of Anglo-American strategic planning in this period shows that before official U.S. wartime entry, both sides largely agreed the British ‘peripheral’ approach was the wisest grand strategy for winning the war
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2022.2104837
ER  -