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Flawed, yet authoritative? Organisational memory and the future of official military history after Chilcot

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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:14 authored by Matthew Ford, Andrew Hoskins
Official Military History (OH) is a thorny subject. Despite a century of deploying British service personnel to conflicts all over the world, over the past 100 years the British government has commissioned very few OHs.3 Offering an interpretation of military events that is typically based on early access to otherwise classified data, OH presents an opportunity for the political and military establishment to set out a perspective that aims at legitimacy but is typically criticised as being flawed. In this discussion paper we present the conflicting pressures and expectations that frame the writing of OH and ask whether such an activity will be possible in a world after the controversies associated with the Iraq War Inquiry of 2009-11.

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British Journal for Military History

ISSN

2057-0422

Publisher

British Commission for Military History

Issue

2

Volume

3

Page range

119-132

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  • International Relations Publications

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  • Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-02-21

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-02-21

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-02-20

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