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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.

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