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Ten Year Rule
The Ten Year Rule was a British government order, under Winston Churchill as Secretary of State for War, of August 1919 to the armed forces that they should draft their estimates "on the assumption that the British Empire would not be engaged in any great war during the next ten years".Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (Penguin, 2004), p.
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