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Kitchener’s War: British Strategy from 1914 to 1916

By: George H. Cassar

Reviewed By: Roger Cirillo

Few people realized how the world would change forever following three shots fired by an assassin on a Sarajevo street in 1914. The results of the war that followed still has repercussions in the Balkans, Middle East, and Eastern Europe, all prime concerns for the United States today. Much of the policy that brought on those results was based on the concerns of the British Empire. Britain’s Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Horatio Kitchener, was in the war’s earliest days, the foremost player. Already a legend in colonial wars from Khartoum to the Boer War, Kitchener’s face adorned recruiting posters, was a seemingly one man policy show, and created the largest volunteer army that the modern world had seen to date. Unable to control events or to make up for the deficiencies of an army and a governing class accustomed to the less technological world of the previous century, Kitchener was later blamed for failures which he himself could not always have avoided. Killed on a warship sunk by a mine in 1916, he became a convenient scapegoat for the politicians of the day. His connection with the ill fated Gallipoli disaster, for which he did bear much culpability, has tainted his name with historians, and has minimized the memory of his significant accomplishments.

In his new book, “Kitchener’s War,” George Cassar offers a sophisticated, balanced, and genuinely fresh look at strategic problems at the beginning of the twentieth century, and offers insights into the limits of personalities in shaping the course of history. An excellent book for strategists and students of military leadership at the national level.

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