• 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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    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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  • Following discussion in the Committee of Imperial Defence in June 1920, a cabinet committee under Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies...
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    Staff Committee was initially established as a sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1923. It remained as such until the abolition of the...
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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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    2015 stress the importance of the Anglo-French Entente of 1904, and the establishment of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Rasor points to twelve historians...
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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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    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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  • 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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    The Colonial Defence Committee (CDC) was a standing committee of the British Colonial Office between 1885 and 1908. During the second half of the 19th century...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Offensive sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence was appointed on 5 August and established a principle that command of the seas was to be ensured...
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  • Government of India, under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press repr. ed...
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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. III (Imperial War Museum...
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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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    Cyril Falls (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    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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    Race to the Sea (category Military operations of World War I involving Germany)
    1914. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. I (2nd ed...
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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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    Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign (category Mediterranean naval operations of World War I)
    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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    History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (facs. repr. Imperial War...
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    Bob's your uncle (category Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)
    someone says it to conclude a set of simple instructions or when a result is reached. The meaning is similar to that of the French expression "et voilà...
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    Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum Department of Printed Books and Naval & Military...
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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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    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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    constituted as a theatre of operations, wherein the policymaking for the colony's defence affairs emanated from the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID), which oversaw...
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    13th (Western) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    1914–1919. History of the Great War based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Imperial War Museum facsimile of the confidential...
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    Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey (category Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster)
    appointed Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence. He became Secretary to the Committee in 1912, a position that he would hold for...
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