TOP SECRET Deployment of United States Forces to implement their strategy 5. Naval Forces. The United States naval forces would be deployed as outlined in Plan SPEEDWAYø and in particular the United States carrier forces would be available to assist in keeping open the Mediterranean lines of communications. 6. Land Forces. The build-up of the United States land forces would take place in Morocco as follows:(a) One division by D+1 ready for operations by D+3 months. (b) Two more divisions by D+3 months ready for operations by D+4 months, and thereafter as in Plan SPEEDWAY.
- Collection ID
- CAB158
- Conflict
- Cold War
- Countries
- France Germany Gibraltar Great Britain Morocco Poland Portugal Russia Soviet Union Spain United Kingdom United States of America
- Document Reference
- CAB 158/7/47
- Document Types
- Report Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 158/7
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab158.0007.047
- Keywords
- Strategy Contingency Planning Assessing Enemy Strength Predicting Enemy Intentions War Preparations Geographic Intelligence Defence Spanish Armed Forces Air Power Naval Strength Military Strength Military Supplies Western Bloc Topographical Intelligence Soviet Army Armaments
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Foreign Office Joint Intelligence Staff Joint Planning Staff Ministry of Defence Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 11
- Persons Discussed
- John Gardiner William Hayter Douglas Packard
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
