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SUPREME COMMAND
Grand Strategy in the Second World War
This series of four lectures considers the Second World War from the point of view of four national leaders whose character and decision-making defined its course: Adolph Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin Roosevelt. Its theme is “grand strategy,” which considers the conduct of war from its political and economic as well as its military dimensions. It is in this realm that these four bore unique responsibility. It is also from their perspectives that the war’s global character is most clearly revealed.
PART 2: Winston Churchill. Churchill became Britain’s Prime Minister at a moment when it appeared the war was already lost. That it was not lost was, in no small degree, owed to the force of his personality and to his understanding of the strategic possibilities open to an imperial and maritime power.
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.