Military Innovations
- Lieutenant-General Sir David Henderson two areas:
- Field intelligence. Argued for the establishment of the Intelligence Corps. Wrote Field Intelligence: Its Principles and Practice (1904) and Reconnaissance (1907) on the tactical intelligence of modern warfare during World War I.
- Royal Air Force. Considered instrumental in the foundation of the British Royal Air Force.
- United States Navy. Created largely by John Paul Jones, who was born in Kirkcudbrightshire.
Special Forces: Founded by Sir David Stirling and other Scottish Royal Marines, the SAS was created in World War Two in the North Africa campaign to go behind enemy lines to destroy and disrupt the enemy. Since then it as been regarded as the most famous and influential special forces that has inspired other countries to form their own special forces too.
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