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100			_aGOLUB Grant
245			_aThe Eagle and the Lion: _breassessing Anglo-American strategic planning and the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for World War II/ _cGrant Golub
260			_c2023
520			_aMany 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.
598			_aGRAND STRATEGY, SECOND WORLD WAR, NEWARTICLS
650			_aGRAND STRATEGY _xSECOND WORLD WAR
773			_gThe Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 46, Number 5, October 2023, page: 921-948
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2022.2104837 _zClick here for full text
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