The development of plans to protect the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere that concentrates on policy in the three years before Pearl Harbor, the gradual merger of hemisphere defense into a broader national defense policy, the transition to offensive plans after Pearl Harbor, and the military relationships of the United States with other American nations.

CMH Pub. 4-2. By Stetson Conn, et al. Discusses the deployment and operations of the Army forces in defense of the continental United States and its outposts, from the Aleutians through Hawaii to the Galapagos in the Pacific, from Iceland through Bermuda to Trinidad in the Atlantic, and the Panama Canal. Also includes three chapters on the evacuation of Japanese Americans from California, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Arizona. L.C. card 62-600067.