Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. 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 emphasized the potential of new weapons, especially tanks and aircraft, to stun a surprised enemy psychologically.
Fuller was highly controversial in British politics because of his support for the organized fascist movement. He was also an occultist and Thelemite who wrote a number of works on esotericism and mysticism.
The Second World War, 1939-1945: a strategical and tactical history, (1948).
Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship, ch. 1 (1957).
Quoted in Men Against Fire. S.L.A. Marshall (1947), p. 107.
Quoted in Men Against Fire. S.L.A. Marshall (1947), p. 27.
