U.S. Army Interwar Planning: The Protective Mobilization Plan.

摘要

This thesis examines the case study of the 1939 Protective Mobilization Plan (PMP). It argues there is an alternative view in the current historical literature, that the 1939 PMP was a defensive plan designed to protect the United States and its periphery. Additionally it examines emergent themes that inform the US Army today as it endures austerity and competing security requirements. In short, the research highlights that the American political system and popular environment support Clausewitz's observation of a paradoxical trinity. More to the point, within the American system, in order to facilitate military success, it must be understood that policy is primal.