Strategy Western Front

British military strategy in the First World War is an enduring subject of debate. Should Britain have used command of the sea to land forces at strategic points Should commitment to the Western Front have been limited and more effort been put into defeating Germany s allies On the Western Front itself, did tanks offer an alternative to the strategy of attrition represented by the Somme and Passchendaele These were... 

William James Philpott, Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 1914— 18 (Basingstoke Macmillan, 1996), pp.8—49. 

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