Boer War Reforms
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- Boer War Reforms
- The Esher Committee
- 'Clean Sweep' of the War Office
- The commander-in-chief should be replaced by an inspector general of the forces
- An army council should be created
- The centre of defence planning should be the Committee of Imperial Defence
- Arnold-Foster
- The army was to be divided between a short-term home defence and long-service oversea operations
- Reduced the volunteers, disbanding half of the militia and absorbing the remainder into the house army
- Haldane
- Two line army: an expeditionary force of three army corps and a territorial force created from volunteers, the militia and the yeomanry
- Ensure he had the support of the army council before presenting proposals to Parliament
- Restored the Cardwellian system
- Broderick
- Proposed the creation of 6 self contained army corps
- His reforms never got off the ground
- National Service League
- Campaigned for compulsory military service
- Membership rose from 10,000 in 1907 to 96,500 in 1913
- MPs from all parties realised calls from conscription would be electoral suicide
- The Esher Committee
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