sentences:  During the early months of the Boer War (1899–1900) and made remarkably accurate forecasts of military movements.Wilkinson's views on military affairs were widely influential.At the Foreign Office, Wilkinson's wife's brother, Sir Eyre Crowe, summarised much of Wilkinson's argument from his 1896 book "The National Awakening" in his famous 1 January 1907 memorandum on British relations with France and Germany.