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Britain's Strategy
Britain
controlled about one-fourth of the Earth's land surface and one-fifth
of the world's population in 1939. Fifty years later, its holdings
outside the British Isles had become trivial, and it even faced an
insurgency in Northern Ireland.
Britain spent the intervening years developing strategies to cope with what poet Rudyard Kipling called its "recessional," or the transient nature of Britain's imperial power. It has spent the last 20 years defining its place not in the world in general but between continental Europe and the United States in particular. Read More »
Britain spent the intervening years developing strategies to cope with what poet Rudyard Kipling called its "recessional," or the transient nature of Britain's imperial power. It has spent the last 20 years defining its place not in the world in general but between continental Europe and the United States in particular. Read More »
