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The duties of the General Staff were to be shared by a Director of Military Operations, a Director of Staff Duties and a Director of Military Training. the War Office was to be radically reorganised on rational grounds. The British Army had previously grown since 1660 by not grand design but piecemeal additions and reforms.
Signal Corps Manual no.1,Handbook of telephones of the Signal Corps, U.S. Army: 1904: 102: TM/Telephones 209: A primer and vocabulary of the Moro dialect (Maguindanao) 1903: 77: languages 212: Three finding lists issued by the War Department Library: 1903: 146: general 213: Finding list of the Principal Reference Works in the War Department ...
It is unclear what exactly the Entente meant to the British Foreign Office. For example, in early 1911, following French press reports contrasting the virility of the Triple Alliance with the moribund state of the Entente, Eyre Crowe minuted: "The fundamental fact of course is that the Entente is not an alliance. For purposes of ultimate ...
The War Office has referred to several British government organisations throughout history, all relating to the army. It was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, at which point its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence (MoD). [1]
The Army Medical Department, 1775–1818. Washington: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1981. Kimball, Jeffrey. "The Influence of Ideology on Interpretive Disagreement: A Report on a Survey of Diplomatic, Military and Peace Historians on the Causes of 20th Century U. S. Wars," History Teacher 17#3 (1984) pp. 355–384 DOI: 10.2307/493146 ...
An Army Council was created along similar lines to the Board of Admiralty, chaired by the Secretary of State for War, and an Imperial General Staff was established to coordinate Army administration. [1] All branches of the Army were directed to be subordinated to the Army Council, which was designated as the "supreme administering body" of the ...
It was built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, the Entente Cordiale of 1904 between France and Britain, and the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. It formed a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy.
MI4 was evolved from the Depot of Military Knowledge, founded 1803, through the Topographical and Statistical Dept, 1855–1857, the Topographic Department, 1858 -1874, The Intelligence Branch, Section 'F' Topographic 1874 - 1888, the Intelligence Division, Section 'F' Topographic 1888 - 1901, the Directorate of Military Operation, Section 'F' Topographic 1904 - 1915 and finally Directorate of ...