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The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941 The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor

Paul Dickson

In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men―unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, l...

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The Ezra Klein Show

He introduced it as a book about the preWorld WarII buildup of the American military and praised its insight into the foresight of 19391940 planners.

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I came across a book by a guy named Paul Dixon called The Rise of the G.I. Army that's about the effort to sort of build up the World WarII American military before Pearl Harbor, and really making the...

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He introduced it as a book about the preWorld WarII buildup of the American military and praised its insight into the foresight of 19391940 planners.

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I came across a book by a guy named Paul Dixon called The Rise of the G.I. Army that's about the effort to sort of build up the World WarII American military before Pearl Harbor, and really making the case that the kind of wisdom of the people who saw in 1939, 1940 that America was going to need a powerful military in the future. It's really interesting.

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