Ten Year Rule
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ten-year-rule-182-3943195
title:
Ten Year Rule
text:
The Ten Year Rule was a British government guideline, first adopted in August 1919, that the armed forces should draft their estimates "on the assumption that the British Empire would not be engaged in any great war during the next ten years". The suggestion for the rule came from Winston Churchill, who in 1919 was Secretary of State for War and Air. In a Commons debate in August 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George referenced recommendations made by the Duke of Wellington following the end o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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British governmental policy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Year_Rule
date created:
2006-02-10T01:34:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T18:36:57Z
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