War Plan Orange
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amphibious doctrine
archival research
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fleet design evolution
interservice coordination
interwar innovation
naval aviation development
naval history prize winner
naval leadership
Pacific war foundations
prewar naval strategy
strategic debate
strategic foresight
tactical modernization
thrusting vs. cautionary schools
U.S.Japan conflict planning
wargaming traditions
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- ISBN 9781591145004
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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`A masterly study of the evolution of history's most successful war plan’
–The New York Times Book Review
`A magnificent book’– General Colin L. Powell
Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange– the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan. The plan itself was formulated over forty years before the outbreak of World War II.
It recounts the struggles between the`thrusting’ and `cautionary’ schools of strategy, the roles of outspoken leaders such as Dewey, Mahan, King and MacArthur, and the adaptation of aviation and other technologies to the plan. Miller shows that the strategy of War Plan Orange was the basis of prewar U.S. naval development in training, ship and aircraft design, and amphibious and tactical thought.
Miller ends his exceptional book by demonstrating how the grand strategy and key campaigns of World War II followed War Plan Orange and its descendants.
Edward S. Miller, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in economics at Syracuse University and the Harvard Advanced Management Program, served as chief financial officer of a major international mining corporation and the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation. His interest in business planning led to the writing of War Plan Orange, winner of five distinguished history book awards. He lives in Washington, D.C.
