This study, as its extensive bibliography testifies, covers well-trodden ground, but in its shrewd use of sources, some of them newly available, it throws a thought-provoking light on the subject. Professor Baylis exposes rigorously but objectively the various contradictions and weaknesses in ministerial and Chiefs' of Staff papers of the period ... When the documents of 1965/70 are released a sequel to Professor Baylis's compelling book, assessing how these changes affected decision-making, will make fascinating reading.

This study, as its extensive bibliography testifies, covers well-trodden ground, but in its shrewd use of sources, some of them newly available, it throws a thought-provoking light on the subject. Professor Baylis exposes rigorously but objectively the various contradictions and weaknesses in ministerial and Chiefs' of Staff papers of the period ... When the documents of 1965/70 are released a sequel to Professor Baylis's compelling book, assessing how these changes affected decision-making, will make fascinating reading.

This study, as its extensive bibliography testifies, covers well-trodden ground, but in its shrewd use of sources, some of them newly available, it throws a thought-provoking light on the subject. Professor Baylis exposes rigorously but objectively the various contradictions and weaknesses in ministerial and Chiefs' of Staff papers of the period ... When the documents of 1965/70 are released a sequel to Professor Baylis's compelling book, assessing how these changes affected decision-making, will make fascinating reading.