George Fielding Eliot (22 June 1894 – 21 April 1971) was a second lieutenant in the Australian army in World War I.
He became a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and later a major in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the United States Army.
[1] He attended the University of Melbourne in Australia, where he joined the school's cadet corps and rose to its highest rank.
[2] When World War I began, Fielding became a second lieutenant in the Australian infantry, and fought in the Gallipoli Campaign from May to August 1915.
[2] In this book Fielding outlines the likelihood of German bombing raids on London which would be made possible from bases in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Additionally, he laid out the defence needs for projecting American air power into the Atlantic, which would later be realized with the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in September 1940.
He continued to write books and articles about military strategy and world politics into the 1960s, for the popular press as well as the scholarly journal Foreign Affairs.