ABSTRACT
On December 28th, the day following the Cabinet's decision to evacuate Cape Helles, when the War Committee consider the military policy to be adopted during the year 1916 they had before them the unanimous advice of the new and of the old Chief of the Imperial General Staff. The policy which the War Committee, was based on the recommendations of the Chantilly Military Conference. The representatives of the Allied Armies had been unanimous inter alia that a decision could be won only on the Russian, Franco-British, or Italian fronts; that the decision must be sought by simultaneous offensives on these fronts; and that in the secondary theatres of war the minimum possible forces ought to be employed. When the French, Italians and Russians were all attacking on their respective fronts it would have been morally impossible for the British Supreme Command to refuse the co-operation of the forces at their disposal in accordance with the plans of the Allied generals.
