ensuring that the military resources of the five countries were organized to meet the strategic requirements of the Allies ensuring the forces of the various nations were welded into an effective fighting machine ensuring their combined resources were allotted in the best way maintaining a proper balance between the conflicting requirements of internal security and home defence on the one hand, and the European battle on the other evaluation, preparation and distribution of the necessary resources, in particular to the Commander of the European battle, whose special task was to make the necessary operational plans and put them into operation keeping constantly under review definition of the exact area of the responsibility of the command of the European battle in war