Lend-Lease and the Northern Convoys in the Allied Strategy During the Second World War

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to explain the logiс of the main operations of the Second World War in terms of the Allied strategy that was created and constantly updated in the light of the changing situation at the various fronts at the regular Allied summits. Such a ‘grand strategy’ is also the key to understand most of the problems of the history of warfare, such as the ‘problem of the second front’, the refusal to use chemical weapons, or the adoption of the Lend-Lease Act, as well as changes in the concepts of its implementation during the war, starting from the ‘concept of proxy war’ to the ‘concept of pool’ and ‘globalization’. The understanding of the Allied strategy, as well as the Lend-Lease concept, allows for an analysis of the role of the Northern Convoys in the Second World War, not only as the route for strategic supplies a but also as an important actor of one of the main naval theaters of the Second World War.