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This course considers the Second World War from the distinctive perspective of the United States, a reluctant belligerent whose entry insured Allied victory. That victory laid the foundations for America’s post-war preeminence, and left America a different place from what it had been when the war began.
PART 2 ~ Europe First (1942-1943). America’s war began in the Far East, but its strategy always prioritized victory in Europe. This lecture considers the development and implementation of that strategy in a period when the Allied cause hung in the balance everywhere.
Daniel J. Moran is Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He was educated at Yale and Stanford universities and has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Dr. Moran teaches courses and supervises doctoral research in strategic theory, American foreign relations, and the history of war and international relations since the end of the 19th century.
