Supreme War Council

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.

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

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