Several government agencies played a part in World War II. The Office of War Mobilization was set up to coordinate all the various agencies to make sure everyone was on the same page.
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Few nations can afford large standing professional armies and in the advent of a major war, a country needs to mobile and put under arms a portion of its civilian population for defense or offense. The office of war mobilization and its equivalent in other countries is designed to fashion civilians to into effective combatants and incorporate them into the existing cadre of the professional army. This is done largely using the Prussian model first introduced after the Napoleonic wars.
Several government agencies played a part in World War II. The Office of War Mobilization was set up to coordinate all the various agencies to make sure everyone was on the same page.
This office of war mobilization took over from the earlier War Production Board to shift the country from a peacetime to a wartime economy. This boosted the economy when workers went to work developing weapons.
Office of war mobilization
To supervise the government agencies involved in the war effort.The Office of War Mobilization (OWM) supervised Government efforts to allocate scarce resources, regulate production, established production contracts, negotiate with organised labor, and control inflation.
Mobilization is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war
Its mobilization.