ENCLOSURE "B"
 
OUTLINE PLAN FOR AN ANAKIM WITHIN AVAILABLE MEANS
 
1. Problem
 
         To prepare an outline plan for operations in BURMA during 
the next dry season (1943-44) within the capabilities of avail-
able UNITED NATIONS forces and equipment.
 
2. Assumptions
 
    a. That air and ground forces cited, as "resources now in 
sight," at the NEW DELHI Conference, will be ready for the 
operations.
 
    b. That deficiencies found indispensable to mounting the 
operations as hereinafter set up will be within the fore-
seeable capabilities of the UNITED NATIONS to provide without 
detracting from the earllast defeat of GERMANY.
 
    c. That the UNITED STATES will Create effective diversion 
in the PACIFIC.
 
3. Objective
    Provided Revised ANAKIM (Enclosure "A") is beyond UNITED 
NATIONS means, the objectives which are considered to be the 
minimum that can be accepted for the BURMA theater are:
 
    a. Maintain pressure on the Japanese forces in the area. 
 
    b. Retain the initiative by such offensive action as will 
cause Japanese countermeasures and deny them freedom of action 
in BURMA.
 
    c. Insure that the means at hand are actively employed to 
best advantage to keep JAPAN from further expansion, and from 
consolidating and exploiting her current holdings in BURMA.
 
    d. Secure an area in upper BURMA that is suitable for the 
development of an all weather route between ASSAM and CHINA.
 
 
 
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DECLASSIFIED
JCS memo, 1-4-74
By RHP, NLP, Date  FEB 19 1974
 
                                        Enclosure "B"