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by James G. Lacey


  defined

  proposed readjustments to

  production organizations. See also specific organizations

  in conversion to munitions production

  infighting among

  proliferation of

  Roosevelt in failure of

  production planning

  coalition

  consumer production reduction and

  military culture in impeding

  strategy coordination with

  Victory Plan in

  Wedemeyer role in

  production program. See Victory Program

  production requirement estimates

  Army and Navy Munitions Board, for raw material

  civilian mistrust of military estimates

  difficulties in arriving at

  military

  Supply Priorities and Allocations Board research on

  Production Requirement Plan (PRP)

  public debt

  Punic Wars

  Purvis, Arthur

  R

  raw materials

  for civilian industry

  estimates for

  in production feasibility

  Requirements Committee and

  shortages of

  stockpiling of

  requirement estimates. See production requirement estimates

  Requirements Committee of War Production Board

  Resources and Requirements Planning Committee

  Revolutionary War mobilization level

  Reynolds Company

  Roberts Commission

  Robinson, S. M.

  “The Role of the Federal Reserve in Financing War” (Snyder)

  Roman Civil War

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  on army reorganization

  defense appropriations and

  feasibility study and

  impact on production program

  National Defense Advisory Commission and

  Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supplies and

  Office of Production Management and

  on Pacific operations

  Plan Dog and

  on production capacity

  production goals and

  on production program

  in strategic planning

  Supply Priorities and Allocations Board and

  use of national income statistics

  War Production Board and

  Roper, Daniel C.

  Rose, Matthew

  Rosenman, Samuel I.

  Russia. See Soviet Union

  S

  Salonika operations

  Samuelson, Paul

  scrap drives

  scrap metal shipments to Japan

  Searls, Fred

  second front strategy

  Churchill and

  Marshall and

  Roosevelt’s assurances on

  timing in

  Wedemeyer and

  Service of Supply

  Sherwood, Robert

  shipbuilding programs

  merchant marine

  Navy

  Snyder, John W.

  Somervell, Brehon

  as Army Service Forces head

  European invasion timing and

  feasibility study and

  feasibility study comments of

  Nelson and

  Patterson letter to

  personality of

  on production coordination with strategy

  production goals and

  reply to comments of

  War Production Board and, attitude toward

  Soviet Union

  in allied strategic planning

  military aid to

  mobilization levels in Napoleonic Wars

  mobilization levels in World War

  second front strategy and

  in Wedemeyer’s Victory Program

  Spaatz, Carl A.

  SPAB. See Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

  Spandau gold reserves

  Spanish-American War mobilization level

  St. Lawrence Waterway Power Project

  Stacy May Papers

  Stark, Harold R.

  steel production

  Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.

  Stevens, Robert

  Stimson, Henry L.

  strategic planning

  British role in

  civilian role in

  economic factors in

  for European invasion

  feasibility and

  options in

  Pacific theater in

  Plan Dog

  production planning coordination with

  production requirement estimates and

  Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare : 1943–1944,

  super-priorities committee

  super-production-strategy committee

  Supply Priorities and Allocations Board (SPAB)

  in analysis of American economy

  assessment of

  creation of

  enforcement power of

  in material allocation

  organization of

  replacement of

  supreme war production council

  T

  Taft, Robert

  taxation

  impact on inflation

  of munitions industry post–World War I,

  in war financing

  Thucydides

  Tobruk

  Treasury Bills

  Treasury Department

  Trident Conference (1943)

  troop estimates

  Truman, Harry S.

  Truman Committee

  two-front war

  Churchill and

  Marshall and

  Roosevelt and

  strategic planning for

  Wedemeyer and

  U

  “The Ultimate Requirements Study: Estimate of Ground Forces” (Wedemeyer)

  United States

  industrial capacity of

  mobilization levels

  An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 (Kirkpatrick)

  V

  Victory Program

  consolidated balance sheet in

  defining documents of

  documentation of development of

  erroneous conflation of with Wedemeyer’s program

  feasibility study for

  financial analysis of

  funding for

  industrial planning in

  large, disadvantages of

  military production estimates in

  Plan Dog and

  Planning Committee role in

  production objectives in

  projected completion time for

  proposed oversite committee for

  requirement estimates for

  Roosevelt’s impact on

  See also production feasibility study

  Victory Program (Wedemeyer’s). See Wedemeyer’s Victory Program

  W

  Wallace, Henry

  War Department

  feasibility study and

  relations with War Production Board

  reorganization of

  requirement estimates and

  See also Army, U.S.

  war financing

  War Manpower Commission

  War of 1812 mobilization level

  war plan development

  War Production Board (WPB)

  creation of

  military opposition to

  military services’relations with

  Planning Committee of

  power of

  reorganization of

  requirements committee of

  See also Planning Committee of War Production Board; production feasibility study

  War Production Board meeting of 6 October, minutes of

  War Production Board meeting of 6 October, Nathan’s memorandum for

  War Production Board proposal on feasibility, Somervell’s comments on


  Watson, Mark

  Wedemeyer, Albert

  on mobilization levels

  self-promotion of

  strategic assumptions of

  tables of allowance drafted by

  Wedemeyer Papers

  Wedemeyer Reports! (Wedemeyer)

  Wedemeyer’s Victory Program

  on ground force distribution

  myths concerning

  text of

  Weiner, Joseph L.

  Wilde, Oscar

  Wilson, Charles E.

  Work Projects Administration (WPA)

  World War I

  mobilization levels

  munitions industry collapse following

  production capabilities in

  World War II

  economic factors in

  production capabilities in

  war financing

  WPB.See War Production Board

  Y

  Yoshpe, Harry

  About the Author

  Jim Lacey was an active-duty military officer for twelve years and is currently a professor of strategy, war, and policy at the Marine War College and an adjunct professor in the Johns Hopkins National Security Program. He also works as a consultant on a number of projects for the U.S. military. Lacey has written for a number of publications, including the New York Post and the New York Sun, and appears regularly in Military History magazine and was an embedded journalist for Time magazine during the invasion of Iraq. Among his earlier books are Takedown: The 3rd Infantry Division’s Twenty-one Day Assault on Baghdad, Pershing, and The First Clash (forthcoming).

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  © 2011 by James G. Lacey

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Lacey, Jim

  Keep from all thoughtful men : how U.S. economists won World War II / Jim Lacey. p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  eISBN : 978-1-612-51034-7

  1. World War, 1939-1945—Economic aspects—United States. 2. United States. War Production Board.

  3. United States—Economic policy–1933-1945. 4. Industrial mobilization—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.

  HC106.4.L34 2011

  940.53’1—dc22

  2010049651

  First printing

 

 

 


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