1.Modified Mahanism: Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, and the Mobile Defense of the Postwar Basin 1 -- 2. A Security Blanket for Paradise: The American Lake Effect and US Pacific Basin Security Policy in the 1940s 17 -- 3. Bear in the Pacific? US Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet Power Projection in the Pacific Basin 37 -- 4. Limitations of Collective Security: The United States, the Great Powers, and the Pacific Basin 63 -- 5. Chosen Instruments and Open Doors in the Pacific: US Strategic Security and Economic Policy in the Pacific Islands 95 -- 6. "Races Undesirable from a Military Point of View": US Cultural Security and the Pacific Islands 117 -- 7. "As a Forward Bulwark of the American Way of Life": Americanization as a Strategic Security Measure 137 -- Conclusion: Out with the Old, in with the New? Continuities and Changes in American Pacific Policy 143.