Military Education and the British Empire, 18151949

"[T]his important, timely, and authoritative volume brings the history of military education to bear on matters of contemporary and continuing relevance." -- Aime Fox * History of Education * This collection makes important contributions to on-going historiography by centring military education as a point of analysis rather than treating it as an aside and by placing it within transnational context. -- Mary Chaktiris * Historical Studies in Education *

Douglas E. Delaney holds the Canada Research Chair in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of The Soldiers General: Bert Hoffmeister at War, which won the 2007 C.P. Stacey Prize for Canadian Military History; Corps Commanders: Five British and Canadian Generals at War, 1939-1945; and The Imperial Army Project: Britain and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1902-1945. Robert C. Engen is an assistant professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War and Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army. Meghan Fitzpatrick is a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. A graduate of Kings College London, she is the author of Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War. John Connor, Claire Cookson-Hills, Howard G. Coombs, E. Jane Errington, Mark Frost, Alan Jeffreys, Andrew Lambert, Joseph Moretz, Andrew Stewart, Ian van der Waag, Randall Wakelam.

Introduction / Douglas E. Delaney and Robert C. Engen 1 Ubique: The Royal Engineers Establishment, 181569 / Claire Cookson-Hills 2 Fashioning Imperial Canadians: The Royal Military College, 18741900 / E. Jane Errington 3 Doctrine, the Soul of Warfare: Sir Julian Corbett and the Teaching of Strategy in the Royal Navy before 1914 / Andrew Lambert 4 Australian Military Education, 190118 / John Connor 5 South Africa and the Making of Military Officers, 190248 / Ian van der Waag 6 The Spirit of an Air Force: Learning about Air Power, 191949 / Randall Wakelam 7 Preparing for a Better War: The Admiraltys Challenge of Educating Naval Officers, 191939 / Joseph Moretz 8 The British and Indian Army Staff Colleges in the Interwar Years / Mark Frost 9 Education in the Indian Army, 192046 / Alan Jeffreys 10 Necessarily of an Experimental Character: The Interwar Period and the Imperial Defence College / Andrew Stewart 11 From Imperial to Nationalist Canadians: The Impact of the Second World War on Canadian Army Staff Education / Howard G. Coombs Concluding Remarks / Douglas E. Delaney and Meghan Fitzpatrick Select Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index