TY - BOOK
T1 - Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War
T2 - The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918
AU - McCrae, Meighen
N1 - Manuscript reviewed, and under revision, to be submitted in October 2017 for publication in 2018.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the year they hoped to achieve a complete military victory over the Central Powers. Meighen McCrae illuminates how, throughout this planning process, the Supreme War Council evolved to become the predominant mechanism for coalition war-making. She analyses the Council's role in the formulation of an Allied strategy for 1918–1919 across the various theatres of war and compares the perspectives of the British, French, Americans and Italians. In doing so we learn how, in an early example of modern alliance warfare, the Supreme War Council had to coordinate national needs with coalition ones.
AB - When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the year they hoped to achieve a complete military victory over the Central Powers. Meighen McCrae illuminates how, throughout this planning process, the Supreme War Council evolved to become the predominant mechanism for coalition war-making. She analyses the Council's role in the formulation of an Allied strategy for 1918–1919 across the various theatres of war and compares the perspectives of the British, French, Americans and Italians. In doing so we learn how, in an early example of modern alliance warfare, the Supreme War Council had to coordinate national needs with coalition ones.
M3 - Book
SN - 9781108475303
SN - 1108475302
T3 - Cambridge Military History
BT - Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -
