Description
This monograph analyzes Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson Jr.’s service as de facto theater Army commander to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz from August 1943 to June 1945. It focuses on the theater-strategic level when Richardson led US Army Forces in Central Pacific Area and US Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas. This study highlights the context of Richardson’s operating environment beginning with prewar plans, the realities of early wartime defeats, and the state of joint operating procedures. It assesses Richardson’s accomplishments in exercising Landpower in the Pacific, across the entire range of today’s Army war-fighting and Joint functions and discusses the implications of posturing for large-scale combat operations in competition, crisis, and conflict. These assessments are relevant to US Army Pacific today in its four current roles of Theater Joint Force Land Component Command, Combined Joint Task Force, Combined Joint Force Land Component Command, and Army Service Component Command.
ISBN
1-58487-855-X
Publication Date
7-11-2024
Publisher
USAWC Press
City
Carlisle Barracks, PA
Keywords
US Army in Pacific War, World War II Central Pacific, Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson Jr., Army war-fighting functions case study, Joint functions case study, large-scale combat operations case study, theater Army
Disciplines
Defense and Security Studies | History of the Pacific Islands | Military History | United States History
Recommended Citation
James D. Scudieri,
Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson Jr.: Central Pacific Theater Army Commander for Admiral Chester W. Nimitz 1943–45 (Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College Press, 2024),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/969
Included in
Defense and Security Studies Commons, History of the Pacific Islands Commons, Military History Commons, United States History Commons
