Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940 - Hardcover

Linn, Brian McAllister

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080782321X ISBN 13: 9780807823217

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Synopsis

In a comprehensive study of four decades of military policy, Brian McAllister Linn offers the first detailed history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. Most accounts focus on the months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. By examining the years prior to the outbreak of war, Linn provides a new perspective on the complex evolution of events in the Pacific. Exhaustively researched, Guardians of Empire traces the development of U.S. defense policy in the region, concentrating on strategy, tactics, internal security, relations with local communities, and military technology.Linn challenges earlier studies which argue that army officers either ignored or denigrated the Japanese threat and remained unprepared for war. He demonstrates instead that from 1907 onward military commanders in both Washington and the Pacific were vividly aware of the danger, that they developed a series of plans to avert it, and that they in fact identified

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Book Description:

"Deeply grounded in primary sources and engagingly written. . . . The definitive work on the interwar US Army in the western Pacific."-- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

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The first detailed study of the U.S. Army in the Pacific between 1902 and 1940, this prizewinning book challenges the theory that U.S. officers ignored or denigrated the Japanese threat.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 080782321X
• ISBN 13: 9780807823217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360