"Drawing on material uncovered at U.S. war colleges and the National Archives years after the official World War II histories known as the Green Books were published, Gole shows that the United States was prepared to mobilize for another world war long before it joined the Allied struggle against the Axis powers.".

"Filled with facts from his extensive research and convincingly argued, Gole's book proves that these plans were created in response to global conflict years before the outbreak of World War II. Co-published with the Association of the U.S. Army, this work for the first time fully discloses the extent of the Army's strategic planning, carried out at the Army War College in coordination with the Army's General Staff. The Army's joint and combined military options became known as the Rainbow Plans.

The author's findings will cause readers to reconsider long accepted "truths" about military planning before World War II and to reevaluate some of the now fifty-year-old findings of the Green Books."--BOOK JACKET.