ENCLOSURE "A"
 
              CLARIFICATION OF CASABLANCA DECISIONS
 
I.   OVER-ALL STRATEGY OF THE WAR
 
(a) In cooperation with Russia and the lesser allies,
 
to force an unconditional surrender of the Axis in Europe.
 
(b) Simultaneously, in cooperation with the other
 
Pacific Powers, to maintain and extend unremitting pressure against Japan.
 
(c) Thereafter, in cooperation with the other Pacific
 
Powers and if possible with Russia, to combine the full re-
 
sources of the United States and Great Britain to force the
 
unconditional surrender of Japan.
 
II.       BASIC STRATEGY FOR 1943
 
                    To conduct a strategic offensive against the Axis in 
 
the European - Mediterranean theater, enploying the maximum forces
 
consistent with maintaining and extending unremitting pressure
 
against Japan, and with meeting current accepted strategic com-
 
mitments.
 
III.       ALLOCATION 0F RESOURCES.
 
Resources will be allocated to meet approved strategic
 
commitments on a scale subject to review from time to time. Re
 
sources available after meeting current strategic conmitments will
 
be allocated to approved strategic undertakings, subject to alteration 
 
in keeping with the changing situation.
 
IV.  STRATEGIC COMMITMENTS.
 
     Priority Group 1
 
     (a) Maintain the security, and war-making capacity
 
of the Western Heroismhere and British Isles.
 
     (b) Support and maintain our forces in all areas to
 
which c ommitted.
 
     (c) Keep enemy submarine effort under increasingly
 
 
effective control.
 
     Priority Group 2
 
(d) Meet requirements of Russian protocol to greatest
 
extent possible without prohibitive cost in shipping.
 
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