British War Administration

War Wounds of the Extremities. War Surgery Supplement No. 2 (British Journal of Surgery)

Deflating British Radar Myths of World War Ii

British and Allied memoirs and histories have contributed to the rise of three myths concerning the discovery and employment of radar. These myths are as follows. The first myth is that Sir Robert Watson-Watt is the father and sole inventor of radar. The second is that Germany’s discovery and realization of radar’s military worth occurred after 1940 following exposure to British systems. The th...

Psychiatry in the British Army in the Second World War

The author can be criticised on several grounds. First, for what he has left out. Many people would have liked more on what they knew, as for instance (dare I say?) when the efforts of the psychiatrists in forward psychiatry in the Far East?which in some ways were unique?are dismissed in 5 pages. But this is perhaps unfair, when there is so much which has obviously to be omitted, and the author...

Globalising Resistance against War? A Critical Analysis of a Theoretical Debate in the Context of the British Anti War Movement

The political revival of the anti-war movement after 9/11 launched a controversial debate on global resistance against war. Liberal cosmopolitans characterise the movement as a consensual force of opposition against war in the form of global civil society acting on the basis of ‘universal’ values. Radical poststructuralists consider it a preliminary example of the Multitude, waging ‘a war again...

Military medicine and the ethics of war: British colonial warfare during the Seven Years War (1756-63).

This article examines 18th-century European warfare, tracing the first formal codifications of conventions of war, frequently introduced by military physicians and initially regarding the treatment of the sick and wounded. It outlines to what extent these conventions were followed in practice, particularly in the challenging environment of American irregular warfare, with a focus on the most we...