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The record of the First World War did severe, if not permanent, damage to the standing and credibility of two of the traditional instruments of European governments and of the élites from which they were recruited. The first victim was the professional military, or, to be more accurate the generals and their general staffs. I have written elsewhere of the effect that this had on their role as advisers on policy to the European powers between the First and the Second World Wars.1
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G. A. Craig and F. Gilbert, The Diplomats 1919–39 (Princeton, 1994 edn)
M. Dockrill and B. J. C. McKercher, eds, Diplomacy and World Power: Studies in British Foreign Policy, 1890–1950 (Cambridge, 1996 )
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Watt, D.C. (2003). Diplomacy and Diplomatists. In: Boyce, R., Maiolo, J.A. (eds) The Origins of World War Two. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-3738-4_19
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