Table of contents for The British General Staff : reform and innovation c. 1890-1939 / edited by David French and Brian Holden Reid.

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Introduction: Brian Bond, Military Historian               1
Brian Holden Reid

 1. Planning for War in the Final Years of Pax Britannica,
    1889-1903                                              9
    Halik Kochanski

 2. Towards a Ministry of Defence: First Faltering Steps,
    1890-1923                                                 26
    John Sweetman

 3. 'Selection by Disparagement': Lord Esher, the General Staff
   and the Politics of Command, 1904-14                      41
   Ian F. W Beckett

 4. Lord Kitchener, the General Staff and the Army in India,
    1902-14                                                   57
    Timothy Moreman

 5. The British Army, its General Staff and the Continental
   Commitment, 1904-14                                       75
   Hew Strachan

 6. The General Staff and the Paradoxes of Continental War  95
   William Philpott

 7. The Australians at Pozieres: Command and Control
   on the Somme, 1916                                       112
   G. D. Sheffield




 8. The British General Staff and Japan, 1918-41           127
   Philip Towle

 9. J. F. C. Fuller: Staff Officer Extraordinary           143
   A. J. Trythall

10. 'An Extensive Use of Weedkiller': Patterns of Promotion
   in the Senior Ranks of the British Army, 1919-39       159
   David French

11. The British General Staff and the Coming of War,
    1933-39                                                   175
    J. P Harris

12. 'A Particularly Anglo-Saxon Institution': The British
   General Staff in the Era of Two World Wars                192
   John Gooch