• The Committee of Imperial Defence was an important ad hoc part of the Government of the United Kingdom and the British Empire from just after the Second...
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    The History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence (abbreviated to History of the Great War or...
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    Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (category Knights of Justice of the Order of St John)
    Ismay became an Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID). After being promoted to the rank of colonel, he served as the military...
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  • Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) was founded in 1936 as a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Following the outbreak of the Second World...
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    Battle of the Somme. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol...
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    of the War. Official History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence...
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    History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Imperial War Museum...
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    History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (repr. Imperial War...
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    founded in 1906 as part of the Committee for Imperial Defence and is concerned with Official Histories. The Joint Intelligence Committee was founded in 1936...
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  • Ten Year Rule (category 20th-century military history of the United Kingdom)
    Balfour rejected the proposal but unsuccessfully argued to the Committee of Imperial Defence, which adopted the rule, that "nobody could say that from any...
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    the Air Staff. The Chiefs of Staff Committee was initially established as a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1923. It remained as such...
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    Chief of Staff Fujii Shigeta The Official history of the Russo-Japanese War / prepared by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence Part...
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  • Cyril Falls (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Government's Committee of Imperial Defence, researching and writing the text of several volumes of the British Government's History of the Great War...
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    was founded on 7 July 1936 as a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, the advisory peacetime defence planning agency. During World War II...
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    on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press ed...
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    Britain Committee of Imperial Defence (1920). Official history, naval and military, of the Russo-Japanese War. Prepared by the Historical section of the Committee...
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    1888, became the Directorate of Military Intelligence. The Committee of Imperial Defence, established in 1902, had the task of co-ordinating the different...
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    whose membership was made up of a combination of ministers and experts in economics. The Committee of Imperial Defence, a parallel Cabinet for military...
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    Commonwealth of Nations. The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Balfour, drew up the document preparatory to its unanimous approval by the imperial prime...
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    Arab Bureau (category Middle Eastern theatre of World War I)
    and dissemination of propaganda and intelligence about the Arab regions of the Middle East. According to a Committee of Imperial Defence paper from 7 January...
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    History of the Great War based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Imperial War Museum...
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    History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Imperial War Museum...
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    History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum...
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    Empire delegation. Committee of Imperial Defence Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Lloyd George ministry Notes Was not a member of the War Cabinet...
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    Committee and the Army Board; he is also the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Army Board. Prior to 1964, the title was Chief of the Imperial General...
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    Operations. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. V (1st ed...
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    Operations. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (2nd, Naval...
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    Royal Navy during World War I (category Naval battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom)
    Operations. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I. London:...
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    By 1909, growing tensions with Germany led the Committee of Imperial Defence to recommend the creation of the Secret Service Bureau to provide organization...
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    History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. IV (Imperial War Museum...
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