Few reference works of strategic intelligence have continued to retain their authority over four decades in the manner in which the encyclopedia, The Defense & Foreign Affairs Handbook, has done. For years it was known as "the big red book" around the Pentagon, Whitehall, the White House, and around the world. Inevitably, after its oversized 2,500-page 2006 print edition (the 16th edition), it had become too unwieldy to produce in its huge printed version, and the urgency and speed with which events changed meant that it had to move to an electronic form.
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