Originally Posted by
henra
Don't think so. What do you think where the massive British armament initiative latest post Munich 1938 came from. I 'm sure they saw the writing on the wall. They were just not ready yet.
The US revived the draft in 1940 when they weren't even in the war yet (aside from a few sailors in the North Atlantic). The US Army held the Louisiana Maneuvers in the summer and fall of 1941, even though we were not in the war yet.
Someone saw the writing on the wall ...
The Louisiana Maneuvers were a series of major U.S. Army exercises held in August to September 1941 in northern and west-central Louisiana, an area bounded by the Sabine River to the west, the Calcasieu River to the east, and by the city of Shreveport to the north. The area included Fort Polk (now Fort Johnson), Camp Claiborne and Camp Livingston. The exercises, which involved some 400,000 troops, were designed to evaluate U.S. training, logistics, doctrine, and commanders. Similar U.S. Army field exercises carried out in the fall of 1941 included the Arkansas Maneuvers in August and the Carolina Maneuvers in November.