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Control over the Armed Forces by ministers, and associated with them though sometimes in jealous opposition to them, by Parliament, has had a long tradition in the United Kingdom. During the nineteenth century, the prestigious offices of First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for War together with the posts of Foreign Secretary, Colonial Secretary and Secretary of State for India, not to mention the Prime Minister, meant that a significant proportionate effort of the Cabinet was directly involved in defence or overseas defence-related questions.
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Broadbent, E. (1988). Ministers, Councils and Boards. In: The Military and Government. RUSI Defence Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09245-1_7
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