This edition focusses mostly on naval history, with lessons to be derived from selective study. The leading feature being an examination of British amphibious warfare by Geoffrey Till. The British and the Limitations of Maritime Manoeuvre (Prof Geoffrey Till holds the Dudley Knox Chair for Naval History and Strategy at the USNWC). It has long been the fashion to contrast an “American way of war” with a “British way of war,” the difference corresponding roughly to a reliance on attrition or manoeuvre. ‘Manoeuvre’ v ‘Attritional Approach’ Strategists are turning to the concept of maritime manoeu…
