Combined operations warfare

Gallipoli. Matters were no more advanced by the Norwegian campaign in 1940. However, amphibious operations became a major feature of the Second World War and investment in commando carriers and specialist landing craft after 1957 for the East of Suez role raised British capability for combined operations to new levels of efficiency. Once more there is no clear trend here from a naval to an air or nuclear phase in the British way of warfare. 

Britain never again enjoyed the advantage of huge balance-of-payments surpluses that had marked the pre-1914 period. Victory had been achieved by a combination of Britain s traditional way of warfare -blockade, loans or subsidies to allies and maritime operations - and an unprecedented continental commitment, but it came at the price of a permanent weakening of British power. 

DANC Solution. This is a 6.25% soln of RH-195 (l,3-dichloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin) in acetylene tetrachloride (tetrachloroethane, Cl CH.CH.Clj)-Because of the corrosive nature of the DANC soln its components are packed separately in a dual -compartmented container and are combined just before use. The solv is the most toxic chlorinated org compd known, being 10 times as toxic as CCl,j, and less than 20 drops ingested can cause death DANC solution is a satisfactory decontaminant, in small-scale operations, for mustard,gas (See WD in Vol 2, p C168-L under Chemical Agents or Chemical Warfare Agents)... 

Policy and strategy were in the making. The Allied leaders decided at the January Casablanca Conference to revive the build-up in the United Kingdom and took a number of actions during 1943 to flesh out that decision. In November 1942 the Combined Chiefs of Staff had briefly turned their attention to gas warfare and now an Allied as well as a United States policy was emerging. This policy required (i) a co-operative American and British effort aimed at arranging the defensive preparedness of all United Nations troops and (2) the accumulation of sufficient toxic munitions to make immediate retaliation possible should the enemy initiate gas warfare anywhere in the world. ... 

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