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  • 4 - Khaki-Clad Maritime Theorist: Charles Callwell and Amphibious Warfare

  • Daniel Whittingham, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in Warfare
    Published online:
    19 December 2019
    Print publication:
    16 January 2020, pp 113-158

  • Summary

    This chapter examines Callwell’s contribution to the ‘naval school’ that emerged as a result of increased interest in matters of imperial defence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that Callwell’s work was distinctive, based on his position as a ‘khaki-clad maritime theorist’, a soldier looking at amphibious warfare from the landsman’s perspective. It also explores Callwell’s time at the War Office, 1903-7, during which he was a practitioner as well as a theorist of strategy. Finally, it assesses Callwell’s literary output during his retirement, especially his writing on the Territorial Army.