LEADER 04765oam 2200721 a 450 001 9910819208103321 005 20240410143620.0 010 $a979-84-00-63319-5 010 $a0-313-00171-5 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400633195 035 $a(CKB)111056485489514 035 $a(OCoLC)614677952 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10017914 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000131861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134984 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10027786 035 $a(PQKB)11081973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000580 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10017914 035 $a(OCoLC)50321902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000580 035 $a(OCoLC)1435635117 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400633195BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485489514 100 $a19991019e20002024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreating an American lake $eUnited States imperialism and strategic security in the Pacific Basin, 1945-1947 /$fby Hal M. Friedman ; foreword by Dirk Anthony Ballendorf 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2000. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 225 1 $aContributions in military studies,$x0883-6884 ;$vno. 198 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-313-31301-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-196) and index. 327 $aCover -- Creating an American Lake -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- RESEARCH PATTERNS AND CONCEPTS -- SYNOPSIS -- Chapter 1 Modified Mahanism: Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, and the Mobile Defense of the Postwar Basin -- THE PREWAR AND WARTIME CONTEXTS -- MAHANIAN OFFENSIVE-DEFENSIVE WARFARE AND THE USE OF MOBILE MILITARY FORCE IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- STRATEGIC PHYSICAL COMPLEXES, STRATEGIC DENIAL, AND THE DEFENSE OF THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 2 A Security Blanket for Paradise: The American Lake Effect and US Pacific Basin Security Policy in the 1940s -- BLANKETING THE PACIFIC -- THE AMBIVALENCE OF PRIORITIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 3 The Bear in the Pacific? US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power Projection in the Pacific Basin -- THE CONTEXT -- THE ''BEAR'' IN PARADISE? -- AN ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 4 The Limitations of Collective Security: The United States, the Great Powers, and the Pacific Basin -- INTER-ALLIED DISPUTES -- THE UN AND POSTWAR AMERICAN SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC -- STATES DIRECTLY CONCERNED -- THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AND SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS -- TERRITORIAL AGGRANDIZEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 Chosen Instruments and Open Doors in the Pacific: US Strategic Security and Economic Policy in the Pacific Islands -- AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- ECONOMIC SECURITY AND THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND CHOSEN INSTRUMENTS IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- THE OPEN DOOR IN THE PACIFIC? -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 6 ''Races Undesirable from a Military Point of View'': US Cultural Security and the Pacific Islands -- CULTURAL SECURITY IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC -- MEXICANS, FILIPINOS, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE POSTWAR PACIFIC BASIN -- CONCLUSION. 327 $aChapter 7 ''As a Forward Bulwark of the American Way of Life'': Americanization as a Strategic Security Measure -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion Out with the Old, in with the New? Continuities and Changes in American Pacific Policy -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Manuscripts and Archival Records -- Microfilm Collections -- US Government Publications -- Telephone Inquiries -- Contemporary Publications -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- TERTIARY SOURCES -- Index -- About the Author. 410 0$aContributions in military studies ;$vno. 198. 606 $aNational security$zUnited States 606 $aImperialism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War 607 $aPacific Islands (Trust Territory)$xStrategic aspects 607 $aPacific Area$xStrategic aspects 607 $aPacific Area$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zPacific Area 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1953 615 0$aNational security 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory 615 0$aCold War. 676 $a327.730965 700 $aFriedman$b Hal M.$f1965-$01093469 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819208103321 996 $aCreating an American lake$93997154 997 $aUNINA