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From the Editors

The first article in the final issue of volume 41 makes a compelling case for the importance of history to the understanding of strategy, a message that readers of The Journal of Strategic Studies will know is dear to the heart of the editors. In ‘Wisdom without tears: Statecraft and the uses of history’, Hal Brands of The Johns Hopkins University and William Inboden of the University of Texas go one step further, arguing that the making of American statecraft can be significantly enhanced by a better and more systematic appreciation of the past. They note that other important international actors pay close attention to their histories and that most conflicts today are mired in conflicting historical memories that demand the attention of anyone seeking to alleviate them. History offers no timeless ‘lessons’, but a sophisticated engagement with the past offers policy makers a deep source of wisdom. Contemporary statesmen would do well to read Jared McKinney’s detailed and nuanced study of British diplomacy during the July crisis of 1914. A PhD student at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, McKinney challenges the accepted wisdom that British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey’s call for a conference of the great powers that summer might have averted war had Germany agreed to the proposal. McKinney argues that Grey’s achievement in resolving the Balkan crisis in 1912 through conference diplomacy, however, had misled him into believing that this earlier success could be replicated in 1914. Grey’s calls for a revival of the