ID - 67191959 TI - Coalition strategy and the end of the First World War : the Supreme War Council and war planning, 1917-1918 PY - 2019 SN - 9781108475303 9781108466684 9781108566711 1108475302 1108466680 1108688632 1108566715 1108618405 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Military planning KW - Supreme War Council KW - --Guerre mondiale, 1re, KW - Planification militaire KW - --Europe KW - --XXe s., KW - History KW - Diplomatic history KW - Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920). KW - Polemology KW - World history KW - anno 1910-1919 KW - Europe KW - Military planning - Europe - History - 20th century KW - World War, 1914-1918 - Diplomatic history KW - Guerre mondiale, 1re, 1914-1918 KW - XXe s., 1901-2000 KW - World War, 1914-1918. KW - Diplomatic history. KW - War planning KW - Military administration KW - Military policy KW - Planning KW - European War, 1914-1918 KW - First World War, 1914-1918 KW - Great War, 1914-1918 KW - World War 1, 1914-1918 KW - World War I, 1914-1918 KW - World War One, 1914-1918 KW - WW I (World War, 1914-1918) KW - WWI (World War, 1914-1918) KW - History, Modern UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67191959 AB - When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the year they hoped to achieve a complete military victory over the Central Powers. Meighen McCrae illuminates how, throughout this planning process, the Supreme War Council evolved to become the predominant mechanism for coalition war-making. She analyses the Council's role in the formulation of an Allied strategy for 1918-1919 across the various theatres of war and compares the perspectives of the British, French, Americans and Italians. In doing so we learn how, in an early example of modern alliance warfare, the Supreme War Council had to coordinate national needs with coalition ones. ER -