ABSTRACT
Britain supply its allies with money and munitions and endeavour to induce neutral states to join the Entente. But its direct military commitment would be limited to taking over more of the line in France to free Joffre's troops for more wearing-down operations. The anti-conscriptionists argued that the price and the risks involved in this policy were too high. They pointed out that Kitchener and Robertson could offer no guarantees that the Entente would be able to inflict such a crushing military defeat on the Germans that they would be forced to sue for peace by the end of 1916. The first round of changes began on 25 September when Sir Archibald Murray replaced Sir James Wolfe Murray as CIGS. As Robertson demonstrated in October and November 1915 when he was summoned to London to advise the government he was not the short-sighted 'Westerner' of popular historiography whose strategic myopia would not allow him to see beyond the Western front.
