There existed no general staff, and it did not occur to him, as it did to Secretary Long, to create one to advise him unofficially.
Although Congress had not provided for a general staff, he himself appointed a Naval War Board, which served many of the same purposes.
At the great school center at Langres, one of the first to be organized, was the staff school, where the principles of general staff work, as laid down in our own organization were taught to carefully selected officers.
The first requisite being an organization that could give intelligent direction to effort, the formation of a General Staff occupied my early attention.
The problem which confronted the German General Staff was to destroy one of the two great armies, that of France or that of England.
I most earnestly recommend that the General Board be by law turned into a General Staff.
But though under the excellent officers at their head, these boards and bureaus do good work, they have not the authority of a general staff, and have not sufficient scope to insure a proper readiness for emergencies.
Footnote *: Since this was written, the Congress has so enlarged the scope of the Office of Chief of Naval Operations as to make it a General Staff.
The usual name given to such a body of officers is "General Staff.
Not only by reason of the British assistance on the left, but also because the strong army of General Foch to the right was a new army, of greater strength than was known to General von Moltke and the German General Staff.
The organisation of an army is the duty of a general staff in time of peace, and should be so perfect in detail as not to break down in the eventuality of war.
Military administration, in respect of the troops and material which it has to control, is divided between the departments of the War Office and the General Staff.
It cannot be admitted, indeed, as has been claimed, that the 14th century had a scientific system of tactics, or that the campaign of Poitiers was arranged by the French "general staff.
God knows it is so," exclaimed an hussar officer, drawing his long moustache through his fingers; "I cannot comprehend why we have a general staff only to arrange such marches as we have made.
The Austrian arms had been successful in Italy, that drill ground for the Austrian general staff officers, the battle of Custozza had been won, and new confidence filled the Viennese, as to their success in Germany.
Produced for the Education and Recreation Branch, General Staff, under the supervision of the Motor Transport Division, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army.
At the great school center at Langres, one of the first to be organized, was the staff school, where the principles of general staff work, as laid down in our own organization, were taught to carefully selected officers.
As it is, his troops are holding a long curve upon the crests of the lower ridges, identical, to a hundred yards, with the line planned by my General Staff in their instructions and pencilled by them upon the map.
The prospect is not too rosy, but Wolfe, I daresay, saw blue as he gazed over the water at his problem, without map or General Staff plan to help him.
He became Colonel in 1905, and the next year he was employed in the Southern Command, first as General Staff Officer.
It is in a Wady in the Anti-Libanus, three quarters of an hour distant from Baalbec.
The fruit is called by the Arabs Djerabouh [Arabic].
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