Cika wannan jumla: Shugabannin da kuma al'amurran da suka shafi umarni. Shawarar Allied don mamaye Guadalcanal ya ci gaba a lokacin rikice-rikice a matakin mafi girma. Tun farkon Fabrairun 1942, Kwamandan Jirgin Ruwa na Amurka Admiral Ernest King ya fara tallata wani matsayi mai tsanani a cikin Pacific. Wannan ya saba wa duka Shugabannin Sojojin Amurka, ciki har da Janar George Marshall, da kuma jagorancin yakin Birtaniya, dukansu sun fi dacewa da "Jamus na farko" abubuwan da suka dace don albarkatun yaki. Sarki ya yi nasara wajen samun karin albarkatun da aka yi wa Pacific, har ma a lokacin da kokarin Amurka a Arewacin Afirka ya ragu. A watan Maris, wata mummunar rikici ta tashi tsakanin Admiral King da Janar Douglas MacArthur game da yadda za a tura wadannan albarkatun. Wannan ya kasance a karshe warware tare da sulhu barin Janar MacArthur a lura da Kudu maso yammacin Pacific Area da kuma cajin tare da kama da
Solomon Islands yammacin Guadalcanal, arewa maso yammacin New Guinea, da Bismarck Archipelago gami da sansanin sojan ruwan Japan a Rabaul. Admiral Chester Nimitz zai yi umurni da yankunan Pacific Ocean da kuma motsawa a tsakiyar Pacific. Admiral Robert Ghormley, a karkashin Nimitz, zai yi umurni da yankin Kudancin Pacific da kuma kama Tulagi, inda Jafananci suka kafa sansanin jirgin ruwa. Ghormley kuma, kusan a matsayin tunani, ya kama Guadalcanal, inda aka gina filin jirgin sama na Japan. A karkashin Ghormley, Admiral Frank Fletcher ya zama kwamandan rundunar sojan Allied 61.