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The Scramble for Asia - U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War (Paperback)
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The Scramble for Asia - U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War (Paperback)
Series: War and Society
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As American generals and diplomats accepted Japan's surrender on
the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in September 1945, allied
combatants wrestled for power in the new post-war world. The
decisions made to effect Japan's surrender entangled U.S. forces on
the mainland of Asia for the next two years, and helped shape the
next several decades of international relations in the Far East.
Marc Gallicchio expertly examines the diplomatic, military, and
economic struggles in which the United States, China, and the
Soviet Union were pitted in the immediate aftermath of victory over
Japan. The Allied victory was but a prelude to an American search
for a lasting peace across Asia, stretching from Korea to Vietnam
and out to the Pacific atolls. In seeking to shape events on the
mainland, the administration of Harry S. Truman confronted the
anomalous nature of American power. The military operations
undertaken by the United States in the early days of post-war peace
affected developments in Asia in unexpected ways. As Gallicchio
makes clear, Americans would soon find that the scramble for Asia
from 1945 to 1947 had set the stage for future conflict in the
region."
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