 the British] learning how to run a large operation and whose doctrines and methods were not yet in accordance with ours".British Prime Minister David Lloyd George pushed for the creation of a Supreme War Council, which was formally established on 7 November 1917.Keen to sideline the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir William Robertson, he insisted that, as French Army Chief of the General Staff, Foch could not also be French Permanent Military Representative (PMR) on the SWC.