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THROUGHOUT history, countries at war have puzzled and even agonized over how to allocate their scarce military resources. This concern has been particularly acute whenever a nation has confronted multiple enemies spread over a wide geographic expanse, all of whom it could not take on at once. Napoleon, for example, defeated several of the powerful coalitions arrayed against him by engaging their Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and British members in rapid succession. During World War II, President Roosevelt chose a "Europe first" strategy that poured American aid into Britain and Russia at a time when Japan was marching from one success to another in the Pacific theater.
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