Bibliographic record
Abstract
T he after-dinner remarks of the Army chief of staff to the American Legion in Washington on February 3 revealed the perspective of the American chiefs of staff as 1944 began. Optimistic that the end of the war in Europe would occur by the fall, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) became concerned as the year lengthened that victory in Europe might blunt the commitment of the American people to see the Pacific war through to the unconditional surrender of Japan. This preoccupation, and other political considerations such as growing awareness of the fading luster of China’s great power status and the moral and political lure of the Philippines as a strategic objective, cast an intricate political shadow over Pacific strategy in 1944. By the year’s end, however, following the wartime conference of FDR and Churchill at Quebec, the recall of General Stilwell from China, and recognition by the JCS of FDR’s increasing disillusionment with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the definition of that shadow became more distinct. The JCS found themselves able to devote their full efforts to the accomplishment of what they viewed as the one remaining clear national objective in the Pacific: securing the speedy unconditional surrender of Japan with a strategy that would sustain the commitment of the home front. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.037 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".