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The Grand area was a concept created by the Council of Foreign Relations in the early 1940s. It was defined as "the amount of the world the United States can defend most economically, that is, with the least readjustment of the American economy."[1]
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[edit]- ^ Jonathan Marshall, To Have and have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War, University of California Press, 1995, p.30.