Government and the armed forces in Britain, 1856-1990 / edited by Paul Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civil-military relations in a period without major wars, 1855-85 / Edgar Feuchtwanger and William J. Philpott -- Ruling the waves : government, the service and the cost of naval supremacy, 1885-99 / Paul Smith -- Adversarial attitudes : servicemen, politicians and strategic policy, 1899-1914 / John Gooch -- 'A one man show?' : civil-military relations during the First World War / David French -- The campaign for a Ministry of Defence, 1919-36 / William J. Philpott -- Sir Thomas Inskip as Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, 1936-39 / Sean Greenwood -- Waltzing with Winston : civil-military relations in the Second World War / Alex Danchev -- 'Vested interests and vanished dreams' : Duncan Sandys, the Chiefs of Staff and the 1957 White Paper / Martin S. Navias -- The Ministry of Defence, 1959-70 / Peter Nailor -- Establishing civilian supremacy : influence within Britain's Ministry of Defence / David K. Boren -- Michael Heseltine and the reorganization of the Ministry of Defence, 1983-84 / Adrian Smith.