Pessimism and British War Policy, 1916-1918 by Brock Millman

Author:Brock Millman [Millman, Brock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General, Political Science, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9781135269579
Google: 5VihAwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-22T01:22:52+00:00

Later in the month, he spoke along the same lines to Painlevé. It was essential to realise, he warned, that with Russia out, the war had entered an entirely new phase, and that it was now essential [Wilson’s emphasis] to knock out Germany’s eastern allies and ‘at one blow destroy all the German Eastern dream’.3 Back in London, he spoke along similar lines to Milner, Foch and Robertson,4 all the while, however, continuing to insist that Haig’s offensive in Flanders must go forward. Wilson’s prescription in May was: fight in France to stay in the war, while seeking countervailing victory in the east.

In June, Wilson hammered at the recalcitrant Robertson in an attempt to make him see the necessity for eastern operations. The French army, he warned, was collapsing, and could only be kept in if the Allies won immediate, and impressive victories. ‘[A]s I said to him over & over again,’ Wilson confided to his diary,

to win this war we must have either military or diplomatic successes, & if military successes are impossible, & he says they are, then we must have diplomatic successes, we must or we shall be beaten – which is not to be thought.

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