Allied Master Strategists by David Rigby

Author:David Rigby [Rigby, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781612513041
Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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Keeping the Armchair Strategists at Bay

Members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff had to fend off the civilian cranks who pop up in any war with what they are certain are the plans for victory, or at least with supposedly prophetic warnings about how to avoid defeat. Admiral King dealt (using what was for him uncharacteristic sympathy and tact) with one such individual who wrote from Maine in the period of nationwide panic that followed in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack with a warning to King to be on the lookout in case Germany should attempt a Pearl Harbor–type attack of its own along the eastern seaboard. The letter, bearing no signature, reads as follows:

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