LEADER 06434oam 2200769 a 450 001 9910971106903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9798400633195 010 $a9780313001710 010 $a0313001715 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(OCoLC)1435635117 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400633195BC 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000580 035 $a(Perlego)4202218 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 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780313313011 311 08$a0313313016 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. 330 8 $aMany historians of U.S. foreign relations think of the post-World War II period as a time when the United States, as an anti-colonial power, advocated collective security through the United Nations and denounced territorial aggrandizement. Yet between 1945 and 1947, the United States violated its wartime rhetoric and instead sought an imperial solution to its postwar security problems in East Asia by acquiring unilateral control of the western Pacific Islands and dominating influence throughout the entire Pacific Basin. This detailed study examines American foreign policy from the beginning of the Truman Administration to the implementation of Containment in the summer and fall of 1947. As a case study of the Truman Administration's Early Cold War efforts, it explores pre-Containment policy in light of U.S. security concerns vis-a-vis the Pearl Harbor Syndrome. The American pursuit of a secure Pacific Basin was inconsistent at the time with its foreign policy toward other areas of the world. Thus, the consolidation of power in this region was an exception to the avowed goal of a multilateral response to the policies of the Soviet Union. This example of national or strategic security went much further than simple military control; it included the cultural assimilation of the indigenous population and the unilateral exclusion of all other powers. Analyzing traditional archival records in a new light, Friedman also investigates the persisting American notions of a Westward moving frontier that stretches beyond North American territorial bounds. 410 0$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 $a9910971106903321 996 $aCreating an American lake$94364586 997 $aUNINA