Newcastle and the king still judged much of the war by European concerns, while Pitt the Elder's faction took a wider view. Europe remained central, but alliances, naval operations, and colonial theatres now had to be connected. Pitt's faction helped redefine what Britain sought from war and how widely its instruments of power had to operate. French policy suffered from a different coordination problem: Louis XV's Secret du Roi could work against his official diplomacy, and rival secret networks could even obstruct one another.
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Pitt, Newcastle, and Britain's worldwide strategy
Pitt the Elder's faction challenged Newcastle's Europe-centred measure of success and connected British war aims across theatres.