"Two things caused the decadence of British maritime power: the long peaceful supremacy after Trafalgar and the captur…"

"The war embraced infinitely complex elements and motives. The most important single one of those elements was the str…"

"[I]t was the inner elite (the general staff) of one of the most caste-bound and privileged officer corps in Europe—th…"

"The new German conception of organizing and planning opened the modern epoch of war. Nothing like the minutely doveta…"

"[T]he essential and constant factor common to all three national academies [in Britain, France and America] is the in…"

"The importance of war and military institutions has been generally neglected in British historical writing, whose ton…"

"Of course I entirely agree...that the British plight consists in a low-wage, low-investment, low-productivity economy…"

"It is noteworthy that neither the Labour Party's plans for "reconstructing and regenerating" Britain nor the so-calle…"

"[G]iven that we are today a country that would be as bankrupt as British Steel if it were not for the lucky strike of…"

"For the British...Jutland has a much deeper significance, for it was in fact a defeat for British technology. More th…"