Ferdinand Foch and the Scientific Battle

Jonathan Krause

Ferdinand Foch's thinking on trench warfare adapted as the war wore on, making an influential if under-researched contribution to tactical and operational doctrine

The British Expeditionary Force and the Great War: Wasn't There a Better Plan?

Allan Mallinson

A counterfactual account of what Britain's leaders could have done prior to the Great War to prepare the country more effectively for fighting a European land war

Did the Royal Navy Decline between the Two World Wars?

Joseph A Maiolo

The persistent myth of a British naval decline in the interwar period is dispelled by a close analysis of the Admiralty's efforts to hamper the rise of other naval powers

Foreword

Emma De Angelis

Editor Dr Emma De Angelis introduces the fourth issue of 2014

Images of War at Tate Modern and the Imperial War Museum

John Mackinlay

Two London museums approach the centenary with diverse takes on the visual commemoration and representation of war

The Austro-Hungarian Experience of Coalition Warfare, 1914–18

Günther Kronenbitter

Austria-Hungary's experience of Germany's junior partner was fraught with misunderstandings and a failure to devise a coherent common strategy

War and Intelligence: The Catalytic Effect of Conflict

Gill Bennett OBE

The First World War was a catalyst for the growth and consolidation of Britain's embryonic intelligence services

The British Army in the Era of Haig and Montgomery

John Buckley and Gary Sheffield

Negative myths about the British Army's performance, especially during the Great War, obscure the reality of an institution that learned and improvide throughout both world wars

RUSI's Roll of Honour, 1914–18

As we mark the centenary of the start of the First World War, the Royal United Services Institute publishes its Roll of Honour listing those members who died during the conflict

Reviews

Poetry of the First World War: Dispelling the Myths

Paul O'Prey

Britain's popular understanding of the Great War has been shaped by a restrictive selection of poetry written during and about the conflict

Canada and the Great War

Tim Cook

Britain's war effort was crucially aided by its Dominions, with Canada's experience of the First World War a prime example of this fundamental military contribution

British Air Power from Potential to Fully Fledged Service, 1914–45

Peter Gray

The First World War set British air power on a path of development that by 1939 made an essential contribution to the conduct of war

Great War Stories: RUSI’s Fallen Members

Many members of RUSI lost their lives in the Great War: we remember some of their personal stories

The Great War and the Mentalité of 1914

Sir Michael Howard

Only by understanding the European mentality of 1914 can one truly understand the First World War

Life Writing, Fiction and Modernism in British Narratives of the First World War

Max Saunders

Popular memory may be shaped by poetry, but it is in prose that some of the most compelling and innovative literary work about the First World War is to be found

The Great War: How 1914–1918 Changed the Relationship between War and Civilians

Heather Jones

An examination of how the First World War disrupted civilian life, the forms of violence perpetrated against civilians during the conflict, and the role of conscription in creating new hierarchies that privileged ideals of male ‘warrior’

A Truly Shared Commemoration? Britain, Ireland and the Centenary of the First World War

Catriona Pennell

The memory of the war in the British Isles – and Ireland in particular – has been inevitably coloured by political agendas, and the Irish contribution has largely been forgotten