Until British Prime Minister Winston Churchill talked President Roosevelt out of it (Save Britain First Strategy-Europe First), the initial plan was to fight the country that started the war with the United States, and that was Japan; using "War Plan Orange." The US Navy had been training on "Plan Orange" since the 1920's.
Richard Nixon had secret plans, to get us out of the war, but i am not positive on the plans that got us into the war.
By July 1942, the Japanese had already attacked the US and the war was already underway. Before the war began, the US had various war plans for the possibility of war with Japan. But none of these war plans included a US attack on Japan to start the war. All US plans assumed that the Japanese would start the war in one way or another, usually with a Japanese attack on the US forces on the Philippines. The US President had specifically told the US Army & US Navy leaders not to cause a war with Japan by accidental or intentional military action.
By December of 1861, Radical Republicans and even some Democrats were dissatisfied with the way the US Civil War was being conducted. That month the US Congress created the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
war powers act
To stay neutral and not get involved.
The US helped with plans for reconstruction of a war-torn Europe through the Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program or the ERP) .
It would have forced him to seek Congress's approval for US involvement.
It was clear from the beginning of the US Civil War, that the Union needed to use an offensive strategy to end the Southern rebellion. What came into doubt during the war was what type of offensive strategy would be the best approach. The Union had to adjust its war plans during the course of the rebellion due to Confederate actions and Northern politicians who tried to influence US President Lincoln on the best ways to conduct the war.
Law of War
To eliminate the US from interferring with their plans of conquest in the Pacific and Asia.
It would have forced him to seek Congress's approval for US involvement.
General George B. McClellan had his own plans for the conduct of the US Civil War. His plan centered around three points. These were the legal and military consequences of secession, the status of slavery, and the division of power between the presidency and a proposed "Commander in Chief of the Army.McClellan did not favor slavery, however, the fact that a substantial part of the US was in outright rebellion against the Federal government meant that there was a just cause that had to be addressed. If such was the case, then the issue of slavery was not part of a reconciliation between the North and the South.And, in order to prosecute the war in a logical and humane manner, the president only needed to be concerned with "Northern" issues.The newly appointed "Commander of the Army" would conduct the war in such a manner as to bring each side to the bargaining table.