Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Modi ed Mahanism: Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, and the Mobile Defense of the Postwar Basin -- A Security Blanket for Paradise: The American Lake Effect and US Pacific Basin Security Policy in the 1940s -- The Bear in the Pacific? US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power Projection in the Pacific Basin -- The Limitations of Collective Security: The United States, the Great Powers, and the Pacific Basin -- Chosen Instruments and Open Doors in the Pacific: US Strategic Security and Economic Policy in the Pacific Islands -- Races Undesirable from a Military Point of View: US Cultural Security and the Pacific Islands -- As a Forward Bulwark ofthe American Way of Life: Americanization as a Strategic Security Measure -- Out with the Old, in with the New? Continuities and Changes in American Pacific Policy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.