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| Collection | Master of Military Art and Science Theses
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| Title | Analysis of the causal factors behind the United States Navy's warship-building programs from 1933 to 1941. |
| Author | Barrett, John Michael |
| Abstract | On 7 December 1941, the US Navy had 343 warships in commission; however, a "second" fleet, consisting of 344 warships, was in various stages of construction in shipyards across the country. Given that building a warship could take anywhere from less than a year for a destroyer, to over three years for a battleship or aircraft carrier, it is clear that the foresighted building of warships in the years prior to US involvement in World War II would play a major role in enabling the US Navy to counter and eventually defeat the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific. In order to trace the evolving influences behind this warship building program, this thesis divides the pre-war period into three separate phases: Phase 1 is bounded by Roosevelt's inauguration and the USS Panay incident, phase two runs from the USS Panay incident until the fall of France, and phase three covers from the fall of France until the attack on Pearl Harbor. In total, the building programs of all three prewar phases amount to 586 warships. |
| Keyword | United States Navy; Interwar period; Warship construction; Naval disarmament treaties; World War, 1939-1945; World War II; WWII; Second World War; Japanese Navy; Prewar years, 1933-1941; USS Panay; Department of the Navy; US Naval history; Naval policies; Roosevelt, Franklin D. |
| Series | Command and General Staff College (CGSC) MMAS thesis
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| Publisher | Fort Leavenworth, KS : US Army Command and General Staff College, |
| Date, Original | 2005-06-17 |
| Date, Digital | 2005-06-17 |
| Resource Type | Textual |
| Format | PDF; Adobe Acrobat Reader required; 122 p.; 644 KB. |
| Call number | ADA 436462 |
| Release statement | Approved for public release; Distribution is unlimited. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the student-authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. (References to these studies should include the foregoing statement.) |
| Repository | Combined Arms Research Library |
| Library | Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library |
| Date created | 2005-09-20 |
