Strategy and Supply (RLE The First World War) by Keith Neilson

Author:Keith Neilson [Neilson, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Modern, 20th Century, Military, World War I, General
ISBN: 9781317703440
Google: mbtwAwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-24T16:03:29+00:00

Notes

1 Rothwell, British War Aims, 8.

2 Meeting of the War Committee, 23 December 1915, Cab 42/6/13.

3 Balfour to Hankey, 24 December 1915, ibid.

4 Meeting of the War Committee, 28 December 1915, Cab 42/6/14; ‘An examination by the General Staff into the factors affecting the choice of a plan of campaign; together with a recommendation as to the best plan to adopt’, A. Murray, 16 December 1915, ibid.

5 Robertson to Haig, 31 December 1915, Haig Papers, 104.

6 Haig to Robertson, 3 January 1916, Robertson Papers I/22/6.

7 Robertson to Haig, 3 January 1916, as cited in W. S. Robertson, Soldiers and Statesmen 1914–1918 (2 vols, London, 1926), I, 256; Callwell’s mission is in Callwell, Experiences of a Dug-Out, 237–52.

8 Kitchener to Asquith, 11 January 1916. Kitchener Papers, PRO 30/67/76; Robertson to Wigram, 12 January 1916, Robertson Papers I/12/30 and Kitchener to Haig, 14 January 1916, Kitchener Papers, PRO 30/57/53.

9 Meeting of the War Committee, 13 January 1916, Cab 42/7/5; untitled memorandum, Balfour, 27 December 1915, ibid.

10 Robertson to Haig, 13 January 1916, Haig Papers, 104.

11 Haig diary entry, 14 January 1916, ibid.; Robertson to Haig, 16 January 1916, Robertson Papers I/22/16.

12 Haig diary entry, 18 January 1916, Haig Papers, 104; Haig to Kitchener, 19 January 1916, Kitchener Papers, PRO 30/57/53.

13 Balfour’s views are in his ‘The present military position, and opinions in the War Committee’, 21 January 1916, Cab 37/141/7. For Robertson’s influence on this paper, see ‘Notes by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff on Mr. Balfour’s memorandum of 18th January 1916’, 20 January 1916, Balfour Papers, ADD MSS 49726, vol. XLIV.

14 ‘Procès-verbal de la conférence du 22 Janvier 1916’, n.s., 22 January 1916, WO 106/393.

15 Robertson to Haig, 28 January 1916, Haig Papers, 104.

16 Haig to Joffre, 1 February 1916 and reply, 6 February 1916, both in ibid.

17 Robertson to A. Murray (now commander of British forces in Egypt), 10 February 1916, Robertson Papers I/32/1; Grey to Kitchener, 10 February 1916, Kitchener Papers, PRO 30/67/77.

18 Lowe and Dockrill, Mirage of Power, II, 202–3.

19 Alekseev to Sazonov, 8 February 1916, as cited in Rieber, ‘Russian diplomacy’, 267.

20 Robertson to Grey, 10 February 1916, Kitchener Papers, PRO 30/67/77; ‘Conversation tenu entre le Général Joffre et le Général Robertson’, n.s., 14 February 1916, WO 106/396.

21 Robertson to Hanbury Williams, 16 February 1916, Robertson Papers I/35/57.

22 The results are outlined in Joffre to Haig, 18 February 1916, WO 158/14; Edmonds, France and Belgium 1916, I, 28–9.

23 Haig to Joffre, 20 February 1916, WO 158/14.

24 Hanbury Williams to Kitchener, 19 and 24 February 1916, Kitchener Papers, PRO 30/57/67.

25 Meeting of the War Committee, 22 February 1916, Cab 42/9/3.

26 ‘The position of Great Britain with regard to her Allies’, Grey, 18 February 1916, ibid.

27 Grey to Kitchener, 28 February 1916, Kitchener Papers, PRO 30/67/77.

28 Buchanan to FO, 6 March 1916, FO 371/2748/43676.

29 Tanenbaum, Sarrail, 89–90.

30 Emets, ‘Protivorechiia mezhdu Rossiei i soiuznikami’, 62–5.

31 Robertson to A. Murray, 15 March 1916, Robertson Papers I/32/12.

32 Haig diary entry, 12 March 1916, Haig Papers, 105.

33 Meeting of the War Committee, 21 March 1916, Cab 42/11/6.

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