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The British rejected the American proposals. British officials pressed for action in North Africa, which would allow relatively-inexperienced American forces to gain experience in a less risky theatre and the gradual buildup of overwhelming force before Germany was engaged head on.<ref name="Husen1999" /><ref name="Mackenzie2014" /> Churchill pressed for a landing in [[French North Africa]] in 1942. George Marshall suggested instead to Roosevelt for the USU.S. to abandon the [[Europe first|Germany-first]] strategy and to take the offensive in the Pacific. Roosevelt "disapproved" the proposal by saying it would do nothing to help Russia.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ward|first1=Geoffrey C.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V73CAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA402|title=The Roosevelts: An Intimate History|last2=Burns|first2=Ken|date=2014|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0385353069|location=|pages=402|chapter=The Common Cause: 1939-1944}}</ref> With Roosevelt's support, and[[Operation MarshallTorch]], unablescheduled tofor persuadelater thethat Britishyear, tobecame changea theircompromise minds,allowing inthe JulyU.S. 1942,to [[Operationengage Torch]],in the invasionfight ofagainst FrenchNazi NorthGermany Africa,on wasa scheduledlimited forscale.<ref>{{Cite laterbook|last=Willmott|first=H.P.|url=https://archive.org/details/june194400will|title=June, that1944|publisher=Blandford Press|year.=1984|isbn=0-7137-1446-8|location=Poole, Dorset}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Routledge Handbook of US Military and Diplomatic History|date=2013|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Hoboken|isbn=9781135071028|page=135|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRiYAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA135}}</ref>