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Military Money: A Fiscal History of the U.S. Army Overseas in World War II

Military Money: A Fiscal History of the U.S. Army Overseas in World War II

Rundell, Walter, Jr.

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Armed ForcesWorld War II

ISBN10: 1585440310
ISBN13: 9781585440313
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: Dec 1 1980
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
During World War II, the U.S. Army Finance Department disbursed approximately $176 billion. To fulfill that task Finance had to coordinate activities with foreign governments as well as other branches of the U.S. government and military branches. The department's first priority was paying the troops, but payments to contractors, vendors, and native laborers were also important.

War caught the Finance Department unprepared. Its procedures, designed for a stationary organization in peacetime, were applied without adaptation to a highly mobile wartime operation. A routine assignment such as paying troops became immensely difficult with troops scattered over large areas. Even the best efforts of personnel could not prevent lapses in service under such conditions, and fiscal administration could never keep pace with tactical innovations.

This is the first study of this important topic and the first critical analysis of the army's use of unsuitable procedures and its lack of planning to cope with the extraordinary fiscal problems presented by World War II. The book points out the need for a realistic appraisal of the army's fiscal obligations during combat and an accompanying change in procedures.

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