Publication of The Esher Reforms
The King, Edward VII, welcomed the Report and urged the Balfour Government to accept its recommendations, which they did. However some in the Army were wary of its recommendations and Lord Kitchener was against it. After Richard Haldane became War Secretary for the Liberal Campbell-Bannerman Government in 1905, he implemented many of its recommendations between 1906 and 1909. Among his advisers was General Sir Gerald Ellison, who was also Secretary of the Esher Committee.
The recommendations were to form the basis of Army reform for the next sixty years. The military historian Correlli Barnett has written that the Esher Report's importance "and its consequences can hardly be exaggerated...Without the Esher Report...it is inconceivable that the mammoth British military efforts of two world wars could have been possible, let alone so generally successful."
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