Command Decisions: Luzon Versus Formosa

Published by Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington, DC, 1990

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Reprint. 461-477 p. Includes maps. Footnotes. Smith was a military historian, connected with the Office of the Chief of Military History. One of the thorniest problems of strategic planning for the war against Japan was to decide whether the principal objective of drives that had brought the Allies into the western Pacific should be Luzon or Formosa. The decision was made by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, since the Pacific was an American area of strategic responsibility. They made it after long debate and careful study of the views of the commanders in the Central and Southwest Pacific theaters. Among the considerations that determined their choice when they finally made it, logistical factors played the major role, but here, as in other connections, they had to take into account the commitments and progress of the Allies in other theaters, and particularly in Europe. It was in this sense a decision in global strategy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff did not formally cancel the Formosa operation. Instead, they left in abeyance a final decision on the seizure of that island, but thereafter the occupation of Formosa as an operation of World War II never came up for serious consideration at the higher levels of Washington planning councils. Reprint of Chapter 21 of Command Decisions, CMH Pub 70-7-21.…

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Title
Command Decisions: Luzon Versus Formosa
Author
Smith, Robert Ross
Publisher
Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington, DC
Publication year
1990
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