The same argument is central to my 2017 book 'The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters' which drew on some of the points in 'How the War was Won'. It is striking but poorly recognised how early Britain and the US reached consensus on emphasising sea and air power. The foundations,/ https://twitter.com/ProfGSheffield/status/1333678196139696128
including the importance of North Africa and the Mediterranean as well as focus on strategic bombing, are visible in discussions between the two from autumn 1940, in the US Plan Dog memorandum that November and, crucially, in the strategic blueprint established in the/
ABC-1 staff talks of early 1941 which too many histories still overlook. Indeed, one of my few criticisms of Alan Allport's outstanding 'Britain at Bay', is the insufficient emphasis given to these vital early debates. They are crucial to much that happened later - not/
least the invasion of Italy which provoked debate last week!
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