One part of the american plan for the defeat of japan called for general douglas macarthur’s troops to advance through the solomon islands, capture the north coast of new guinea, and then retake

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

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