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Keep from All Thoughtful Men overturns much accepted historical dogma on how World War II strategy was planned and implemented. It is taken for granted that the Axis powers were defeated by an avalanche of munitions that poured forth from pitiless American factories. The amazing story of how this “miracle of production” was organized and integrated into Allied strategy and operations long remained untold. This is the first book that tells how revolutions in both statistics and finance forever changed the nature of war. While author Jim Lacey relates the overall story of how economics dictated war planning at the highest levels, more specifically he explains how three obscure economists came to have more influence on the conduct of World War II than the Joint Chiefs. Because military historians rarely understand economics and economic historians just as rarely involve themselves with the details of war, there has never been a military history that shows how economics influenced the planning of strategy and the conduct of war. This is sadly true of even World War II, which has been called “The Economist's War” by Paul Samuelson.

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      Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 2/15/2024
      ISBN13: 9781682479483, 978-1682479483
      ISBN10: 168247948X

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      Book Synopsis
      Keep from All Thoughtful Men overturns much accepted historical dogma on how World War II strategy was planned and implemented. It is taken for granted that the Axis powers were defeated by an avalanche of munitions that poured forth from pitiless American factories. The amazing story of how this “miracle of production” was organized and integrated into Allied strategy and operations long remained untold. This is the first book that tells how revolutions in both statistics and finance forever changed the nature of war. While author Jim Lacey relates the overall story of how economics dictated war planning at the highest levels, more specifically he explains how three obscure economists came to have more influence on the conduct of World War II than the Joint Chiefs. Because military historians rarely understand economics and economic historians just as rarely involve themselves with the details of war, there has never been a military history that shows how economics influenced the planning of strategy and the conduct of war. This is sadly true of even World War II, which has been called “The Economist's War” by Paul Samuelson.

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