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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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
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