Britain was beyond the immediate reach of the Central Powers and had the resources of its empire to fall back on. But this triumph was also a testament to the adaptive capacities of the British political class. Lloyd George, like Clemenceau, was the advocate of a full-throated war effort. The harassment of those suspected of non-conformity or resistance on the home front was relentless. On the Western Front, discipline in the British ranks was notoriously harsh.
