(e) Sustain China by the greatest volume of supplies
 
that can be got into China, without prohibitive cost in
 
transport.
 
     (f) Other firm coImnitments, approved from time to
 
time, for political or military reasons as essential to the
 
conduct of the war.
 
V.   STRATEGIC UNDERTAKINGS.
 
     Priority as between the Axis in Europe and Japan.
 
     (a) Resources available for strategic undertakings
 
will be allocated on the basis of the approved over-all
 
strategy of conducting a strategic offensive against the
 
Axis in Europe, while maintaining and extending unremitting pressure against Japan.
 
     (b) As between these two basic undertakings, avail-
 
able resources will be allocated as follows:
 
               (1) For operations against the Axis in Eu~ope all resources over and above those 
 
allocated for use against Japan.
 
     (2) For operations against Japan resources
 
adequate to ensure that operations in Europe are not 
 
prejudiced by the necessity to divert forces there-
 
from, in order to relieve an adverse situation arising
 
from operations against Japan; the extent of such oper
 
ations, however~ to be kept within limits which will 
 
not, in the opinion of the Combined Chiefs of Staff,
 
jeopardize the ability of the United Nations to take
 
advantage of a favorable opportunity to defeat Germany
 
decisively in 1943.
 
     Priority as among specific operations.
 
     (a) Within the scope of the resources allocated for
 
use against Japan, the operations to be undertaken in the
 
Pacific and their relative priority will be decided by the
 
JointChiefs of Staff.
 
     (b) Within the resources allocated to the European
 
theater and to the Far East, the priority of major operations
 
is established in the order: TORCH, HUSKY, SICKLE, ANAKIM,
 
BOLERO.
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