But even while we were conducting defensive, delaying actions, we were looking forward to the time when we could wrest the initiative from our enemies and place our superior resources of men and materials into direct competition with them.
Roosevelt discusses the strategic shift from defense to offense as the Allies prepared to take the initiative in the war.
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