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In December 1942, barely a year after the United States had entered
World War II, the American military establishment was already
planning a postwar overseas base network. Although initially
designed to support an international police force, the plans
increasingly assumed a national character as the Grand Alliance
dissolved into the confrontations of the Cold War. Dr. Converse not
only illustrates how Army, Navy, and Air Force planners went about
their work but also analyzes the numerous factors influencing the
nature, extent, and location of the projected base system. These
included requirements for postwar US physical and economic
security, rapidly changing technology, interservice rivalries,
civil-military conflicts, and reactions by other nations to the
prospect of American bases near or on their soil.
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