ABSTRACT
The War Policy Committee consisted of Lloyd George, Curzon, Milner, and Smuts but Bonar Law was kept in the closest touch with their work and was virtually a member. The Committee had to conduct its investigations without interfering with the daily meetings of the War Cabinet, where day-to-day decisions had to be taken over a vast field. In the matter of field guns they were believed to be superior to their adversary, but of guns of 4.5-inch calibre and above they possessed only about 2,000 to Austria's 2,360. In field guns the Allies were believed to possess 9,126 to the German 4,556. But in heavy guns the Germans were believed to possess 7,520 to the Allies 6,614. The first doubt which assailed the War Policy Committee was whether the Allies possessed a sufficient margin of strength to bring the campaign to a successful conclusion.
