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From global-minded General George Catlett Marshall, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, came justification for a 7,500,000-man Army in 1943. Best WMC estimate now is that the total armed forces will require 9,700,000 men by the end of next year. Best WMC estimate for a total labor force for 1943 is 65,000,000. But, excluding unemployables and women with young children, there are only 60,000,000 men & women in the U.S. between the ages of 14 and 60 who might be able to work or fight...
...does the U.S., which already has 1,000,000 men overseas, need an army of 7,500,000 men, plus 650,000 officers? The tall, lean man who knows more about the U.S. Army than anybody else answered that question last week. General George Catlett Marshall said...
Into the debate on the post-war world, amply charged with theory and speculation, hard-bitten U.S. Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall last week injected words of caution and realism. Said he, before the august Academy of Political Science...
Global Secret? This apparently belated arrival at vital decisions looked bad for General George Catlett Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and others in the U.S. high command. In fact, such delay seemed to confirm what many responsible men, at the key controls of the U.S. arsenal, had been saying: that the military, up to last week, had simply lacked any real strategy, any real grasp of the global war, any real plan for winning...
...plain office in the Munitions Building come reports of military operations in all theaters of combat. Every day he discusses the progress of the war with his chief and fellow V.M.I, alumnus, General George Catlett Marshall. About three times a week he talks over grand strategy with Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's war effort coordinator. (General Eisenhower used to confer secretly with the President himself.) It is up to General Handy and his Division to make plans for U.S. moves, decide where forces should concentrate, where the bombers should strike. When a plan gets the Army...