The Evolution of British Strategic Policy, 1919-26

This book is a study of the connections between Britain's foreign, financial and military policies during the 1980s, demonstrating that these issues were closely related because Britain needed to draw a balance between the military forces, which seemed necessary to support its strategic aims, with that strength which it seemed able to afford.;The author shows that the so-called ten year rule and Treasury control over the fighting services did not begin sufficiently to affect British strategic policy until 1925.

He argues that between 1919-1926, Britain did not follow a single strategic policy, but instead many different ones, and that they were not formulated in a static fashion but rather in a dynamic one.;The book calls for a radical reaasessment of the perceptions of this critical period.;John Robert Ferris has published many articles on aspects of British strategic policy during the 1920s and on British signals intelligence 1898-1946.