Clive, Ray S. <br/><br/>
Washington command post :  the Operations Division / 
by Ray S. Clive. 
 - Washington :  Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army,  1951. 
 - xvi, 413 pages :  portraits, diagrams ;  26 cm. 
 - United States Army in World War II The War Department .
 - The War Department United States Army in World War II .
<br/><br/>Cont.: The Army high command before Pearl Harbor -- The War Plans Division -- Early interservice and international staff planning -- Developments in 1941 -- Transition into war -- Organizing the high command for World War II -- The new Army command post -- Inside OPD -- Case history : drafting the Bolero plan -- The torch period -- Transition to the later war years -- Midwar international military conferences -- OPD and joint planning (1943-45) -- Controlling troops and matériel -- Links with the overseas theaters -- Military planning and foreign affairs -- Case history : planning the end of the war against Japan -- After OPD. 
<br/><br/> An account of the War Department's principal staff agency that describes the way the members of the Operations Division worked together, defined their responsibilities, and carried out their common aims. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War, 1939-1945--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--War Department