ABSTRACT
The study of Marlborough's Blenheim campaign also reinforced other political lessons from the First World War that Churchill would put to good use as warlord in the formation of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War in particular, the role of government in recruiting allies. The key to this new Front, Churchill came to realize as he wrote his analysis of the First World War, was national will molded by strong leadership and propaganda. The basic fact, as he consistently demonstrated in The World Crisis, was that broad issues of grand strategy were so complex and far reaching that the coordination of ends, ways and means for the war effort could only be accomplished at the highest policy level. The World Crisis and Marlborough are truly landmarks in defense literature that are absolutely indispensable to an understanding of Britain's future pivotal role in historys most ferocious cataclysm.
