87: The British Empire Pt. 2 - The Other Side of the World

The British Empire spanned the entire globe, which was great...except for the fact that it meant defending the entire globe.

Sources:

• Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force 1919-1939 by David E. Omissi
• Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East 1933-1939: Imperial Crossroads by Greg Kennedy
• The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000 Volume III: The Military Dimension Edited by Ian Gow and Yoichi Hirama with John Chapman
• 'A Fearful Concatenation of Circumstances': The Anglo-Soviet Rapprochement, 1934-6 by Michael Jabara Carley
• Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation-building in Britain Between the Wars Edited By Laura Beers and Geraint Thomas
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• British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-1940 by Michael Dockrill
• The British General Election of 1935 by James C. Robertson
• Patterns of the Future? British Mediterranean Strategy and the Choice Between Alexandria and Syprus 1935-8 by Manolis Koumas
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• Forgotten Armies by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
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