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Notes

¹ For recent articles on similar themes, see George Dimitriu, ‘Clausewitz and the politics of war: A contemporary theory’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 43:5 (2020), 645–85; Andrew Carr, ‘It’s about time: Strategy and temporal phenomena’, Journal of Strategic Studies 44/3 (2021), 303–24.

² On Stalin’s threat perceptions, see James Harris, ‘Encircled by enemies: Stalin’s perceptions of the capitalist world, 1918–1941ʹ, Journal of Strategic Studies 30/3 (2007), 526–28. For a survey and analysis of recent Soviet Second World War historiography, see Mark Edele, ‘Who won the Second World War and why should you care? Reassessing Stalin’s War 75 years after victory’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 43:6–7 (2020), 1039–62. For a study of contemporary Russian strategy, see Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky, ‘From Moscow with coercion: Russian deterrence theory and strategic culture’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 41:1–2 (2018), 33–60.

³ See for instance Edward Hampshire, ‘Strategic and Budgetary Necessity, or Decision- making “Along the Grain”? The Royal Navy and the 1981 Defence Review’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 39:7 (2016), 956–78; Stephen McLaughlin, ‘Battlelines and Fast Wings: Battlefleet Tactics in the Royal Navy, 1900–1914ʹ, Journal of Strategic Studies 38:7 (2015), 985–1005; David Morgan-Owen, ‘A Revolution in Naval Affairs? Technology, Strategy and British Naval Policy in the “Fisher Era”’, Journal of Strategic Studies 38:7 (2015), 944–65; John W. Coogan, ‘The Short-War Illusion Resurrected: The Myth of Economic Warfare as the British Schlieffen Plan’, Journal of Strategic Studies 38:7 (2015), 1045–64; Matthew S. Seligmann, ‘Naval History by Conspiracy Theory: The British Admiralty before the First World War and the Methodology of Revisionism’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 38:7 (2015), 966–84; John Brooks, ‘Preparing for Armageddon: Gunnery Practices and Exercises in the Grand Fleet Prior to Jutland’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 38:7 (2015), 1006–23; Christopher M. Bell, ‘The Myth of a Naval Revolution by Proxy: Lord Fisher’s Influence on Winston Churchill’s Naval Policy, 1911–1914ʹ, Journal of Strategic Studies, 38:7 (2015), 1024–44.