Enemy Objectives Unitとは 意味・読み方・使い方

On June 13, 1942 President Roosevelt sought to create an intelligence group like Britain’s Special Operations Executive. The Office of Strategic Services or OSS was formed. Under the OSS a subdivision called Research and Analysis was composed of professors and scholars that were willing to contribute to the war. Among the R&A branch a team of economists were formed under the name of the Enemy Objectives Unit. The Enemy Objectives Unit was a research group of economists that used input/output models in recommending Nazi targets to allied Eighth Air Force. This group is often used as a case study in applied economics, in particular their suggestion to Allied commanders to destroy ball bearing factories, as their models showed them to be the most vital to Nazi industry.[1] (this particular recommendation turned out to be incorrect as the Nazis re-engineered many machines to use other methods of friction reduction and because of cushioning reasons discussed below).