UID:
almafu_9959232724402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (253 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-84-00-63319-5
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0-313-00171-5
Serie:
Contributions in military studies, no. 198
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Cover -- Creating an American Lake -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- RESEARCH PATTERNS AND CONCEPTS -- SYNOPSIS -- Chapter 1 Modified Mahanism: Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, and the Mobile Defense of the Postwar Basin -- THE PREWAR AND WARTIME CONTEXTS -- MAHANIAN OFFENSIVE-DEFENSIVE WARFARE AND THE USE OF MOBILE MILITARY FORCE IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- STRATEGIC PHYSICAL COMPLEXES, STRATEGIC DENIAL, AND THE DEFENSE OF THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2 A Security Blanket for Paradise: The American Lake Effect and US Pacific Basin Security Policy in the 1940s -- BLANKETING THE PACIFIC -- THE AMBIVALENCE OF PRIORITIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3 The Bear in the Pacific? US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power Projection in the Pacific Basin -- THE CONTEXT -- THE ''BEAR'' IN PARADISE? -- AN ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 4 The Limitations of Collective Security: The United States, the Great Powers, and the Pacific Basin -- INTER-ALLIED DISPUTES -- THE UN AND POSTWAR AMERICAN SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC -- STATES DIRECTLY CONCERNED -- THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AND SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS -- TERRITORIAL AGGRANDIZEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 Chosen Instruments and Open Doors in the Pacific: US Strategic Security and Economic Policy in the Pacific Islands -- AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- ECONOMIC SECURITY AND THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND CHOSEN INSTRUMENTS IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- THE OPEN DOOR IN THE PACIFIC? -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 ''Races Undesirable from a Military Point of View'': US Cultural Security and the Pacific Islands -- CULTURAL SECURITY IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- MEXICANS, FILIPINOS, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC BASIN -- CONCLUSION.
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Chapter 7 ''As a Forward Bulwark of the American Way of Life'': Americanization as a Strategic Security Measure -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion Out with the Old, in with the New? Continuities and Changes in American Pacific Policy -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Manuscripts and Archival Records -- Microfilm Collections -- US Government Publications -- Telephone Inquiries -- Contemporary Publications -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- TERTIARY SOURCES -- Index -- About the Author.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-313-31301-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9798400633195
