Strategy in the Second World War

Air power found itself integrated in a vision of strategy much broader than that to which the pre-1914 military theorists had cleaved. Strategy increasingly defined itself less as the use of the battle for the purposes of the war and more as theuse of war for policy. The applicability of grand strategy, a lesson from the First World War, made particular sense to Britain and to the United States. It became the intellectual construct for the Grand Alliance's formulation of strategy in the Second World War.