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2 - Strategy

August–December 1915

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Daniel Larsen
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University of Cambridge
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As the British faced financial crisis in the United States, the Treasury developed a strategy to fight the war while sustaining their ever-increasing reliance on American supplies. A near-failure of a large Anglo-French loan in the United States revealed that American investors were unwilling to finance these supplies themselves, a revelation that should have been a decisive moment for British war strategy. Instead, McKenna faced a significant faction in the Cabinet who dismissed these concerns as overblown. This faction demanded large increases in the size of the British Army and imposing conscription on the British public – demands that led to a series of political crises for Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to manage.

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Plotting for Peace
American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917
, pp. 48 - 70
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Strategy
  • Daniel Larsen, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Plotting for Peace
  • Online publication: 26 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108761833.005
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  • Strategy
  • Daniel Larsen, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Plotting for Peace
  • Online publication: 26 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108761833.005
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  • Strategy
  • Daniel Larsen, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Plotting for Peace
  • Online publication: 26 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108761833.005
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