The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II.
The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II.
Introduction - Brian Bond military historian Brian Holden Reid; planning for war in the final years of pax Britannica 1889-1903 Halik Kochanski; towards a ministry of defence - first faltering steps 1890-1923 John Sweetman; selection by disparagement - Lord Esher the general staff and the politics of command 1904-14 Ian F.W. Beckett; Lord Kitchener the general staff and the army in India 1902-214 Timothy Moreman; the British army its general staff and the continental commitment 1904-14 Hew Strachan; the general staff and the paradoxes of continental war William Philpott; the Australians at Pozieres - command and control on the Somme 1916 G.D. Sheffield; the British general staff and Japan 1918-41 Philip Towle; J.F.C. Fuller - staff officer extraordinary A.J. Trythall; an extensive use of weedkiller - patterns of promotion in the senior ranks of the British army 1919-39 David French; the British general staff and the coming of war 1933-39 J.P. Harris; a particularly Anglo-Saxon institution - the British general staff in the era of two world wars John Gooch.
Introduction - Brian Bond military historian Brian Holden Reid; planning for war in the final years of pax Britannica 1889-1903 Halik Kochanski; towards a ministry of defence - first faltering steps 1890-1923 John Sweetman; selection by disparagement - Lord Esher the general staff and the politics of command 1904-14 Ian F.W. Beckett; Lord Kitchener the general staff and the army in India 1902-214 Timothy Moreman; the British army its general staff and the continental commitment 1904-14 Hew Strachan; the general staff and the paradoxes of continental war William Philpott; the Australians at Pozieres - command and control on the Somme 1916 G.D. Sheffield; the British general staff and Japan 1918-41 Philip Towle; J.F.C. Fuller - staff officer extraordinary A.J. Trythall; an extensive use of weedkiller - patterns of promotion in the senior ranks of the British army 1919-39 David French; the British general staff and the coming of war 1933-39 J.P. Harris; a particularly Anglo-Saxon institution - the British general staff in the era of two world wars John Gooch.
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