J. F. C. Fuller

John Frederick Charles Fuller
John Frederick Charles Fuller
Nickname(s)	"Boney"
Born	1 September 1878; Chichester, West Sussex, England
Died	10 February 1966 (aged 87); Falmouth, Cornwall, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1899–1933
Rank	Major-general
Service number	16
Unit	Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Commands	14th Infantry Brigade
Battles / wars	Second Boer War; First World War;
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath; Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Distinguished Service Order;
Other work	Military historian, occultist, author

Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller CB CBE DSO (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, known as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare.^[1]^[2] With 45 books and many articles, he was a highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the interested public. He explored the business of fighting, in terms of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and economic factors in the civilian sector. Fuller emphasised the potential of new weapons, especially tanks and aircraft, to stun a surprised enemy psychologically.

Fuller, a Nazi sympathizer, was implicated in a conspiracy against the British government in 1940.^[3]

^ "Fuller, John Frederick Charles (1878–1966), army officer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33290. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 21 June 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Liddell Hart, Basil (16 February 1966). "Maj.-Gen. J. F. C. Fuller". The Times. No. 56557. p. 18.
^ Woodbridge, Steven (5 October 2020). "The Admiral who admired Hitler: Sir Barry Domvile, Nazism and early Historical Revisionism" (PDF). The British Association for Holocaust Studies. Retrieved 1 December 2023.

[:1-1] "Fuller, John Frederick Charles (1878–1966), army officer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33290. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 21 June 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[:0-2] Liddell Hart, Basil (16 February 1966). "Maj.-Gen. J. F. C. Fuller". The Times. No. 56557. p. 18.

[3] Woodbridge, Steven (5 October 2020). "The Admiral who admired Hitler: Sir Barry Domvile, Nazism and early Historical Revisionism" (PDF). The British Association for Holocaust Studies. Retrieved 1 December 2023.

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