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28. Henderson,Science of War, 45.


29. Ibid., 42.


30. William Robertson,From Private to Field Marshal(London: Constable, 1921), 83; see
    also Brian Bond,The Victorian Army and the Staff College, 1854–1914(London: Eyre
    Methuen, 1972), 159.


31. John Gooch,Plans of War: The General Staff and British Military Strategy, c.1900–1916
    (London: Routledge, 1974).


32. Report on a conference of general staff officers at the Staff College, 7–10 January 1908,
    held under the direction of the chief of the general staff, Haig papers, National Library
    of Scotland Acc. 3155/81, 3, 27, 46, 48; see also Gooch,Plans of War, 113–15.


33. ‘The true standard of our military needs’,c.1906, Robertson papers, Liddell Hart
    Centre for Military Archives, 1/2/9, 11.


34. ‘Remarks on a visit to battlefields’, 1912, Robertson papers, 1/2/12.


35. J. P. Harris,Douglas Haig and the First World War(Cambridge: Cambridge University
    Press, 2008), 45–6.


36. ‘Remarks on a visit to battlefields’, 1912, Robertson papers, 1/2/12.


37. General Staff, War Office,Field Service Regulations Part I: Operations, 1909 (London:
    HMSO, 1914; reprinted with amendments), 46, 67–9.


38. Ibid., 196.


39. Ibid., 197. The last point is in bold in the original.


40. Ibid., 13, 131. Again, the last point is in bold in the original.


41. General Staff, War Office,Field Service Regulations Part II: Organization and Adminis-
    tration(London: HMSO, 1909; reprinted with amendments to October 1914), 24.


42. Notes on strategy by Colonel Henderson compiled for use of students at the Staff
    College (6th edn., March 1912), Robertson papers, Liddell Hart Centre for Military
    Archives, 1/2/10 (capitals in original).
    43.Field Service Regulations Part I: Operations, 14. Here, the first quotation is in bold in
    the original.


43. [L. H. R. Pope-Hennessy], ‘The British Army and Modern Conceptions of War’,
    Edinburgh Review, vol. 213, no. 436 (April 1911), 321–46; here 324, 326, 346.


44. Quoted in Albert Palazzo,Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and
    Chemical Warfare in World War I(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), 12.


45. [L. H. R. Pope-Hennessy], ‘The Place of Doctrine in War’,Edinburgh Review, vol. 215,
    no. 439 (January 1912), 1–30; here 18, 21, 28.
    47.Field Service Regulations Part II, 25.


46. Report on conference of general staff officers, 1908, Haig papers, National Library of
    Scotland Acc. 3155/81, 17, 25.


47. On the corps on the Western Front, see Andrew Simpson, ‘The Operational Role of
    British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914–18’, Ph.D. thesis (University
    of London, 2001); Andy Simpson, ‘British Corps Command on the Western Front,
    1914–1918’, in Gary Sheffield and Dan Todman (eds.),Command and Control on the
    Western Front: The British Army’s Experience, 1914–18(Staplehurst: Spellmount,
    2004). See also Jonathan Bailey,The First World War and the Birth of the Modern
    Style of Warfare(Strategic and Combat Studies Institute: The Occasional, no. 22,
    1996).


48. Quoted in Simpson, ‘Operational Role of British Corps’, 194.


49. J. H. Boraston (ed.),Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches (December 1915–April 1919), 2 vols.
    (London: Dent, 1919), vol. i, 319–20, 321, 325, 330.


50. J. F. C. Fuller,The Reformation of War(London: Hutchinson, 1923), 86–7, 119.

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