Extract from a letter from Henry Wilson
to the home secretary regarding British military strategy in the event of
a Franco-German war, 29 August 1911.
Henry Wilson was appointed as director of military operations at the War
Office in 1910 and held the post until the outbreak of war in August 1914.
Written in the midst of the Agadir crisis on 29 August 1911, this letter
gives his personal opinions on British military policy in the event of a
Franco-German war. Wilson emphasises the importance of a friendly, rather
than merely neutral, Belgium in forestalling the worse effects of a German
attack on France. War between Germany and Britain, he concludes, 'is as
certain as anything human can be'.
Catalogue reference: ADM 116/3474 (29 Aug 1911)
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