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Insight, Forecasts and Sometimes Getting It Wrong: A Comment on Three RUSI Journal Articles from 1920
Trevor TaylorRUSI Journal, 17 October 2018
Armed Forces, Land Forces, Maritime Forces
Reviewed works:
‘The Air Force’ by Air Commodore H R Brooke-Popham (1920)
‘Possibilities of the Next War’ by Major-General Sir Louis C Jackson (1920)
‘The Submarine and Future Naval Warfare’ by Lieutenant W S King-Hall (1920)
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