ABSTRACT
The invitation to write this chapter has provided me with the incentive to revisit the whole subject of ‘Boney Fuller’, which I first visited, with the help and encouragement of Brian Bond, over thirty years ago. The result of that visitation was my biography, ‘Boney’ Fuller: The Intellectual General, 1 and a whole lot else besides: a new dimension in my life, a changed way of looking at the world. A great deal of all this I owe to Brian Bond. The result of this revisitation is not so much revision of my original views and conclusions, but the opportunity to relate them, not to Fuller's general military and historical significance, as I did in the biography, but to the creation and nature of the British General Staff during his military career.
