c. c. s. 199/2
 
April 27, 1943
                                                                                                                       COPY NO 36
 
                                            COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF    
 
                            SURVEY OF PRESENT  STRATEGIC SITUATION
                                         (Clarification of Casablanca Decisions)
 
 
                                 Memorandum  by the United States  Chiefs of Staff
 
    1. The United States Chiefs of Staff have noted the comments
 
submitted by the representatives of the British Chiefs of Staff
 
concerning the clarification of the Casablanca decisions set
 
forth in C.C.S. 199. This clarification was not intended as an
 
attempt to reopen the Casablanca Conference or to rewrite its
 
decisions.
 
     2. Clarification of the Casablanca Decisions was perhaps not
 
the best title. The paper is actually an attempt to bring up to date
 
 in one short paper for the use of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
 
and U.S. Services the current accepted strategic concept, with
 
particular reference to furnishing an adequate basis for alloca-
 
tion of resources. Such a paper must of necessity include:
 
a consideration of all the pertinent Casablanca papers; (b) 
 
matters assumed as generally accepted, and hence omitted at
 
(a) Casablanca (support of British economy for example); (c) informa-
 
tion as to available resources in modification of the Casablanca
 
data; (d) action of C.C.S. subsequent to Casablanca; (e) new
 
events and conditions as they have arisen.
 
    3. It should be emphasized that this paper is not considered
 
revision" of C.C.S. 155/1, any more than was C.C.S. 170/2
 
or Part II of the appendix of C.C.S. 183/1.
 
On the other hand, it is our opinion that when another Casablanca
 
 document is eventually produced, it might well be prepared in the same
 
general form as C.C.S. 199.
 
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 Asst. Sec.,
       Communications                                       Copy 18
Gen. Anderson                                                 Copy 19
Gen. Wood                                                     Copy 20
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 British Mission                                               Copy 22-31