JOINT BOARD ESTIMATE OF
               UNITED STATES OVER-ALL PRODUCTION
                          REQUIREMENTS
                                
II.  MAJOR MILITARY POLICY
 
     4.   Germany, and all German-occupied countries whose military forces cooperate with
Germany; Japan and Manchukuo; Italy; Vichy France; and possibly Spain and Portugal, are
assumed possible enemies.  Countries considered as friends or potential associates in war are the
British Commonwealth, the Netherlands East Indies, China, Russia, Free France, peoples in
German-occupied territory who may oppose Germany, and the countries of the Western
Hemisphere.
 
     5.   Those major national objectives of the United States which are related to military
policy may broadly be states as: preservation of the territorial, economic and ideological integrity
of the United States and of the remainder of the Western Hemisphere; prevention of the
disruption of the British Empire; prevention of the further expansion of Japanese territorial
dominion; eventual establishment in Europe and Asia of balances of power which will most nearly
ensure political stability in those regions and the future security of the United States; and, so far as
practicable, the establishment of regimes favorable to economic freedom and individual liberty.
 
     6.   Since the permanent territorial interests of the United States are in the Western
Hemisphere, it is fundamental that the United States must provide armed forces appropriately
disposed, which in all eventualities, American Powers, can successfully prevent the extension in
the Western Hemisphere of European or Asiatic political or military power, even though the
British Commonwealth had collapsed.
 
     7.   Attainment of this objective alone will not lead to the success of all of the national
policies mentioned din paragraph 6.  Those national policies can be effectuated in their entirety
only through military victories outside this hemisphere, either by the armed forces of the United
States, by the armed forces of friendly Powers, or by both.
 
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