Command Decisions

CONTENTS

	Forward		iii
	Preface		v
Chapter			Page
Introductory Essay by Kent Roberts Greenfield			1
I.	Germany First: The Basic Concept of Allied Strategy in World War II by Louis Morton		11
II.	The German Decision to invade Norway and Denmark by Earl F. Ziemke		49
III.	Decision to Land United States Forces in Iceland, 1941 by Byron Fairchild		73
IV.	Japan's Decision for War		99
V.	The Decision to Evacuate the Japanese From the Pacific Coast by Stetson Conn		125
VI.	The Decision to Withdraw to Bataan by Louis Morton		151
VII.	The Decision to Invade North Africa (TORCHby Leo J. Meyer		173
VIII.	U.S. Merchant Shipping and the British Import Crisis by Richard M. Leighton		199
IX.	The Persian Corridor as a Route for Aid to the USSR by Robert W. Coakley		225
X.	OVERLORD versus the Mediterranean at the Cairo-Tehran Conferences by Richard M. Leighton		255
XI.	MacArthur and the Admiralties by John Miller, jr.		287
XII.	Hitler's Decision on the Defense of Italy by Ralph S. Mavrogordato		303
XIII.	General Lucas at Anzio by Martin Blumenson		323
XIV.	General Clark's Decision to Drive on Rome by Sidney T. Mathews		351
XV.	The 90-Division Gamble by Maurice Matloff		365
XVI.	The ANVIL Decision: Crossroads of Strategy by Maurice Matloff		383
XVII.	General Bradley's Decision at Argentan (13 August 1944) by Martin Blumenson		401
XVIII.	Logistics and the Broad-Front Strategy by Roland G. Ruppenthal		419
XIX.	The Decision to Launch Operation MARKET-GARDEN by Charles B. MacDonald		429
XX.	The German Counteroffensive in the Ardennes by Charles V.P. von Luttichau		443
XXI.	Luzon versus Formosa by Robert Ross Smith		461
XXII.	The Decision to Halt at the Elbe by Forrest C. Pogue		434
XXIII.	The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Louis Morton		493
Chronology			519
CODE NAMES
Basic Military Map Symbols
Index			535