Common military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire. It permeated every aspect of the profession of arms and was an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace. Yet much military history overlooks external factors and influences such as education, which shape armed forces. "Military Education and the British Empire" is the first major scholarly work to address the role of military education in maintaining the empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing together the world's top scholars on the subject, this book places distinct national narratives -- Canadian, Australian, South African, British, and Indian -- within a comparative context. The contributors examine military education within the British Empire as a generator of institutional knowledge, as a socializing agent, and as an enhancer of interoperability. Moreover, this volume explores the importance of professional military education as a catalyst for forging effective alliances and coalition operations, which have highlighted the need for military forces to operate seamlessly with alliance partners -- most recently in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. "Military Education and Empire" is the first volume to examine military education from a transnational perspective, which allows readers the opportunity to consider the connections between education and empire. This book will interest scholars of both military history and education. Given the contemporary resonance of the subject, there are also vital lessons for policy makers and military practitioners alike. Following an introduction (Douglas E. Delaney and Robert C. Engen) chapters include: (1) Ubique: The Royal Engineers Establishment, 1815-69 (Claire Cookson-Hills); (2) Fashioning Imperial Canadians: The Royal Military College, 1874-1900 (E. Jane Errington); (3) "Doctrine, the Soul of Warfare": Sir Julian Corbett and the Teaching of Strategy in the Royal Navy before 1914 (Andrew Lambert); (4) Australian Military Education, 1901-18 (John Connor); (5) South Africa and the Making of Military Officers, 1902-48 (Ian van der Waag); (6) The Spirit of an Air Force: Learning about Air Power, 1919-49 (Randall Wakelam); (7) Preparing for a Better War: The Admiralty's Challenge of Educating Naval Officers, 1919-39 (Joseph Moretz); (8) The British and Indian Army Staff Colleges in the Interwar Years (Mark Frost); (9) Education in the Indian Army, 1920-46 (Alan Jeffreys); (10) "Necessarily of an Experimental Character": The Interwar Period and the Imperial Defence College (Andrew Stewart); and (11) From Imperial to Nationalist Canadians: The Impact of the Second World War on Canadian Army Staff Education (Howard G. Coombs). Concluding Remarks (Douglas E. Delaney and Meghan Fitzpatrick), a select bibliography, list of contributors, and an index are included.