10 “Necessarily of an Experimental Character”: The Interwar Period and the Imperial Defence College

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Ubique: The Royal Engineers Establishment, 1815–69 9
7. Fashioning Imperial Canadians: The Royal Military College of Canada, 1874–1900 25
8. “Doctrine, the Soul of Warfare”: Sir Julian Corbett and the Teaching of Strategy in the Royal Navy before 1914 48
9. Australian Military Education, 1901–18 69
10. South Africa and the Making of Military Officers, 1902–48 85
11. The Spirit of an Air Force: Learning about Air Power, 1919–49 108
12. Preparing for a Better War: The Admiralty’s Challenge of Educating Naval Officers, 1919–39 135
13. The British and Indian Army Staff Colleges in the Interwar Years 152
14. Education in the Indian Army, 1920–46 175
15. “Necessarily of an Experimental Character”: The Interwar Period and the Imperial Defence College 192
16. From Imperial to Nationalist Canadians: The Impact of the Second World War on Canadian Army Staff Education 212
17. Concluding Remarks 229
18. Select Bibliography 236
19. Contributors 242
20. Index 245