Patrick Playfair

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Lieutenant Playfair (back row, 3rd from left) with other officers of the RFC in 1913

In 1945 Playfair published Warfare Today: How Modern Battles Are Planned and Fought on Land, at Sea, and in the Air,[1] co-written by Major General J. F. C. Fuller and Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon.

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