War, Strategy, and International Politics

All three editors are distinguished scholars who have published widely in the fields of military history and strategic studies.

`Its substance ... is anything but shallow, and the majority of the contributors have written readable and persuasive essays which break new ground in their chosen subject areas.'Brian Holden Reid, King's College, London, EHR April 1993

• War and the English in the reign of Henry VIII; an English country house at war - Littlecote and the Pophams; the continental commitment in the 18th century; "Cornwallis Triumphant" - War in India and the British Public in the late 18th century; parliamentary debate, economic vulnerability and British Naval expansion 1860-1905; Britain, Germany, and the Admiralty's plans for attacking German territory 1906-1915; Lord Kitchener and the Battle of Loos - French politics and British strategy in the summer of 1915; who knew what and when? The French Army mutinies and the British decision to launch the Third Battle of Ypres; "Hidden in the Rock" - American military perceptions of Great Britain 1919-1940; Alanbrooke and Britain's Mediterranean strategy 1942-1944; being friends - the combined chiefs of staff and the making of allied strategy in the Second World War; Britain and the Alliance; grand strategies and less than grand strategies - a 20th-century critique; continuity and change in Soviet strategic thought; problems of command in limited warfare - thoughts from Korea and Vietnam; strategic studies and the problem of power.