Table of Contents:
  • part 1. The nation prepares for war: The air corps and the army team
  • National defense: the business of every citizen
  • Infantry in modern war
  • Industrial mobilization for war
  • The lessons of 1917-1918
  • Training by maneuvers
  • National organization for war
  • Our military policy
  • Leadership in war
  • We are not trying to aggrandize the army
  • Civil aviation and the defense program
  • VMI: its traditions and heritage
  • Building an army
  • Why Selective Service?
  • Expansion of the air corps
  • Wastage and war
  • The National Guard and the crisis
  • Costs of national defense
  • Responsibility and command
  • A new departure: training a citizen army against the possibilities of war
  • The morale and integrity of our army
  • Living conditions on the army
  • The army and the people
  • A survey of the army program since July 1939
  • Supporting the army
  • Morale in modern war
  • Extending the service of national guardsmen and selectees
  • We cannot break up the army
  • The national emergency
  • Our mission in the army
  • The challenge of command
  • Lend-lease
  • The Citizens' Defense Corps
  • part 2. The nation at war: The day after Pearl Harbor
  • Getting down to the business of war
  • Defenses of the Western Hemisphere
  • West Point and the citizen army
  • Lowering the draft age to eighteen years
  • The United Nations
  • We know what we are doing
  • Report to the nation
  • Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers
  • Keeping up the momentum
  • Responsibilities of the home front
  • Anglo-American accord
  • The task before us
  • Army-navy cooperation
  • Universal military training and the peace.