Defeating Japan

' This major reassessment properly identifies, analyzes, and emphasizes the importance of political considerations and goals in determining U. S. strategy in the war against Japan. It provides a useful corrective to the popular but erroneous belief that U. S. strategy during World War II was based on ' purely military' factors. ' - Mark A. Stoler, author of Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U. S. Strategy in World War II and George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century

' This is a lovely book: lean, elegant, crisp - by far the best narrative of American military diplomacy and strategy in the Pacific War. Its singular strengths include a careful analysis of the role of domestic - i. e. , ' public' - opinion on the Administration' s and Joint Chiefs' judgments on naval and military strategies for the prosecution of the Pacific campaigns. ' - Josiah Bunting, HF Guggenheim Foundatio