Supreme War Council

This article is about the Allied central command during World War I. For other uses, see Supreme War Council (disambiguation).

The Supreme War Council was a central command based in Versailles that coordinated the military strategy of the principal Allies of World War I: Britain, France, Italy, the United States, and Japan.[1] It was founded in 1917 after the Russian Revolution and with Russia's withdrawal as an ally imminent.[2] The council served as a second source of advice for civilian leadership, a forum for preliminary discussions of potential armistice terms, later for peace treaty settlement conditions, and it was succeeded by the Conference of Ambassadors in 1920.

  1. ^ Renshaw, Patrick (2014-07-10). The Longman Companion to America in the Era of the Two World Wars, 1910-1945. Routledge. ISBN 9781317895497.
  2. ^ Greenhalgh, Elizabeth (2005-12-08). Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139448475.