Download or read book German General Staff Project written by Waldemar Erfurth and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brain of an Army written by Spenser Wilkinson and published by Westmister : A. Constable. This book was released on 1895 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses aspects of the German general staff.
Download or read book The War Book of the German General Staff written by Prussia (Germany). Armee. Grosser Generalstab. Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II. and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of the German General Staff on the American General Staff written by William H. Greoning and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German General Staff system that evolved from the 1800's to the end of World War II was a unique institution that was both vilified and venerated. Although often misunderstood, the German General Staff system became an institution of excellence, leading the German Army and German nation to the domination of Europe by the end of the 19th century. Twice in the first half of the 20th century, it also dragged Germany into devastating wars that could not be won. On May 8, 1945, the surrender of Germany in World War II marked the end of the German General Staff system. Although in World War II Germany was hopelessly over-committed strategically, the German Army and the German General Staff still achieved many great triumphs and victories. Thus, it is appropriate to study the German General Staff system. Further, the German General Staff system had a profound influence on the creation of the American General Staff, although the American system deviated from the German model. This study project describes what the German General Staff system was, how and why it developed, and what its strengths and weaknesses were. (Part II of the study presents a succinct history of the German General Staff system, which is essential to a true understanding of the system.) The study will also uncover and illuminate the flaws of the German General Staff system that lead to its eventual downfall. Finally, the study of the German General Staff system of the 19th century will be shown to be relevant to the U.S. military of the 20th century through an examination of the joint staff system created by the Goldwater-Nichols Act.
Download or read book Training and Development of German General Staff Officers written by Siegfried Westphal and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Brain of an Army A Popular Account of the German General Staff written by Spenser Wilkinson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the inner workings of military strategy and organization with Spenser Wilkinson's insightful book, "The Brain of an Army: A Popular Account of the German General Staff." This captivating read offers a comprehensive exploration of the German General Staff, providing valuable insights into its structure, function, and impact on military operations. As Wilkinson's engaging narrative unfolds, prepare to be intrigued by the meticulous planning and coordination that underpins the German General Staff's success. From its role in strategic decision-making to its influence on battlefield tactics, each chapter sheds light on the critical importance of effective leadership and organization in warfare. But here's the thought-provoking question that will keep you captivated: What lessons can be learned from the German General Staff's approach to military planning and execution, and how might these insights be applied in contemporary contexts? Explore the timeless principles of military strategy and leadership that continue to shape modern warfare. Delve into the art and science of military command as Wilkinson offers a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of one of history's most renowned military institutions. Through vivid descriptions and historical anecdotes, readers will gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities of military decision-making and the challenges faced by commanders in the field. Are you ready to uncover the secrets of the German General Staff and gain a deeper understanding of military strategy and organization? Immerse yourself in Wilkinson's illuminating account and discover the key principles and practices that have shaped the course of military history. Whether you're a student of military science or simply interested in the art of leadership, "The Brain of an Army" offers valuable insights into the nature of warfare and the role of strategic thinking in achieving victory. Join the ranks of those who have been fascinated by the inner workings of military command. Start your journey into "The Brain of an Army" today! Experience the power of strategic thinking and organizational leadership firsthand. Purchase your copy of "The Brain of an Army" now and gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities of military command and the art of warfare. ```
Download or read book The First Soldier written by Stephen G. Fritz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An expert account of Nazi war strategy that concludes that Hitler was not without military talent.”(Kirkus Reviews) After Germany’s humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country’s brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Führer’s erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed books on the era, Stephen Fritz upends this characterization of Hitler as an ill-informed fantasist and demonstrates the ways in which his strategy was coherent and even competent. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany’s fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is uncontroversial. But while his generals did sometimes object to Hitler’s tactics and operational direction, they often made the same errors in judgment and were in agreement regarding larger strategic and political goals. A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler’s thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy. “Perhaps the best account we have to date of Hitler’s military leadership. It shows a scrupulous and imaginative historian at work and will cement Fritz’s reputation as one of the leading historians of the military conflicts generated by Hitler’s Germany.” —Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War “Original, insightful and authoritative.” —David Stahel, author of The Battle for Moscow
Download or read book German General Staff Training and Development of German General Staff Officers written by United States. Army. European Command. Historical Division and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Defense Of Berlin written by Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often written during imprisonment in Allied War camps by former German officers, with their memories of the World War fresh in their minds, The Foreign Military Studies series offers rare glimpses into the Third Reich. In this study Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar discusses his recollections of the climatic battle for Berlin from within the Wehrmacht. “No cohesive, over-all plan for the defense of Berlin was ever actually prepared. All that existed was the stubborn determination of Hitler to defend the capital of the Reich. Circumstances were such that he gave no thought to defending the city until it was much too late for any kind of advance planning. Thus the city’s defense was characterized only by a mass of improvisations. These reveal a state of total confusion in which the pressure of the enemy, the organizational chaos on the German side, and the catastrophic shortage of human and material resources for the defense combined with disastrous effect. “The author describes these conditions in a clear, accurate report which I rate very highly. He goes beyond the more narrow concept of planning and offers the first German account of the defense of Berlin to be based upon thorough research. I attach great importance to this study from the standpoint of military history and concur with the military opinions expressed by the author.”-Foreword by Generaloberst a.D. Franz Halder.
Download or read book The German Campaign in Russia written by George E. Blau and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brain of an Army A Popular Account of the German General Staff written by Spenser Wilkinson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the afternoon of Monday, the 2nd of July, 1866, King William of Prussia with his retinue drove into the little town of Gitschin, in the hilly region of Northern Bohemia, on the southern side of the Giant Mountains. His upright bearing scarcely showed the burden of his sixty-nine years, nor did his frank expression reveal the weight of care that pressed upon him. After months of weary diplomacy, the political crisis had been brought to a head by a resolution of the Diet of the Germanic Confederation to the effect that Prussia had violated "the peace of the Confederation," and that the armies of the confederated States were to be called out. This resolution, not three weeks old, meant that Prussia was at war with Saxony, Hanover, Hesse, Bavaria and Würtemberg, and with the Austrian Empire. Besides this long array of enemies there were friends of various degrees of good and ill will to be considered. Russia was a benevolent onlooker; Italy an active ally, not indeed very formidable in the field, but able to occupy a portion of the Austrian forces. France was the ambiguous busybody, waiting to take a side according to the prospect of advantage, and the French ambassador was on his way to pay his unwelcome respects to the Prussian king. Even at home there were grave difficulties. The Prussian Parliament, representing at that time a liberal electorate, was directly opposed to the whole policy of which the war was a part. The king had left Berlin to join the army only on Saturday morning, after a fortnight of constant anxiety over the complicated operations which had resulted in the capture of the Hanoverian army and the occupation without fighting of the kingdom of Saxony. The invasion of Bohemia by two separate armies had been ordered on June 22nd. Each of these armies had passed the mountain wall that shelters Bohemia on the north, and they were now only a day's march apart quartered in scattered villages a few hours' drive to the east of Gitschin. The troops were fatigued with a week's hard work. The Crown Prince coming from Silesia with 115,000 men had with various portions of his army fought three severe battles and as many serious skirmishes. His force lay on the left bank of the Elbe around his headquarters at Königinhof, twenty-one miles due east of Gitschin. Prince Frederick Charles, the king's nephew, commanded the other army of 140,000 men, which had met with little serious resistance, though the troops were tired with the needless marching caused by ill-considered arrangements. This prince had come to report in person to Gitschin from his headquarters at Kamenitz, six or seven miles to the east.
Download or read book German Northern Theater of Operations 1940 1945 Illustrated Edition written by Earl Ziemke and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.
Download or read book Moltke s Projects for the Campaign of 1866 Against Austria written by Field Marshal Graf Helmuth von Moltke and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1907, this is the translation by the British Army War Office of Field Marshal Moltke’s military papers relating to the war of 1866 (first published in their original German in 1896). “A NEW light was thrown upon the campaign of 1864 by the publication, in 1892, of Moltke’s military correspondence during that war—a volume which revealed, as nothing published before it had done, the brilliant abilities and resolute character of the Prussian general. That delightful volume was followed, in 1896, by the publication of a selection from Moltke’s military papers relating to the war of 1866...They are divided into four parts, collected under the headings of preparation, mobilization, and deployment, the actual operations, the truce and peace. The chief interest of these disclosures lies in the first part, for it is the arrangements for the first deployment and subsequent concentration of the Prussian Army that have formed the principal subject of controversy in regard to this campaign. Moreover, since the construction of railways, the great importance which always in every campaign has attached to the opening has been, if anything, increased. The opening is usually arranged with a deliberation impossible in the subsequent stages of the action. It is the part of the game which admits of the completest study beforehand, and it is the part in which for this campaign abundant evidence is now given. Moltke’s colleagues of the Staff have told us since his death that they were much impressed by his habitual effort to think things out, and that he used in this process to assist himself by putting his thoughts on paper and rewriting his analysis or his argument again and again until he found it satisfactory.”
Download or read book German General Staff Officer Education and Current Challenges written by German Army Lieutenant Colone Groeters and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "German General Staff Officer Education and Current Challenges" examines the institutional education of German General Staff Officers, as experienced by the author, and offers a "Conceptual Competency-Skill-Framework" for professional development. Five competencies (Physical, Intrinsic Motivation, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Cognitive Competency) and five skills (Deduction, Synthesis, Analysis, Induction, and Revaluation Skill) define this model through a process of theory and praxis. A case study of an operational planner for the first German Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan (2003) describes the experiences of the author and identifies competencies and skills that required improvisation, rather than reliance on a model of previous institutional, operational, and personal preparation. This monograph commends the balanced holistic approach of the German General Staff Officer course at the Fuehrungsakademie der Bundeswehr (German General Staff Officer Academy), and recommends several educational venues to improve the specific competencies and skills in an institutional setting. The trinity of premier institutional education, operational experience and practical insight, and a dedicated life-long program for professional self-development, invigorates the military leader for emergent roles in national, regional, and global mission responsibilities. The ultimate value of a conceptual competency-skill framework is the personal assessment, evaluation, and integration for professional learning and performance that results in how to think, act, and lead.
Download or read book History of the German General Staff written by Walter Goerlitz and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Air Force General Staff written by Gen.-Lt. Andreas Nielsen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Air Force General Staff, first published in 1959, written by Generalleutnant a. D. Andreas Nielsen, is one of a series of historical studies written for the United States Air Force Historical Division by former key officers of the German Air Force for the United States Air Force Historical Division. The overall purpose of the series is threefold: 1) To provide the United States Air Force with a comprehensive and, insofar as possible, authoritative history of a major air force which suffered defeat in World War II; 2) to provide a history of that air force as prepared by many of its principal and responsible leaders; 3) to provide a firsthand account of that air force’s unique combat in a major war with the forces of the Soviet Union. This series of studies therefore covers in large part virtually all phases of the Luftwaffe’s operations and organization, from its camouflaged origin in the Reichswehr, during the period of secret German rearmament following World War I, through its participation in the Spanish Civil War and its massive operations and final defeat in World War II. These studies find their principal authority in their authors’ personal knowledge and experience. Thus, these studies are neither unbiased nor are they “histories” in the ordinary sense of that word. Instead, they constitute a vital part of the story without which the final history of Germany’s role in World War II cannot be written.
Download or read book Training and Development of German General Staff Officers Project 6 written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westphal's study consists of four parts. Part I is the selection, education and training of general staff officers in peace and war; this includes training at the War College in peacetime, training at general staff schools during wartime, probationary service, and final transfer in the general staff itself. Section II contains the organization, work and inner life of the general staff (activities, staff attitude toward procedural problems, and opinions). Part III is the general staff in World War II and includes over-all development of staff in wartime, cohesion within the general staff, relations, influence of the general staff, measures taken by the supreme military command, wartime lessons, and overall evaluation of successes. Part IV addresses the basic problems of the general staff. Main topics include the roots (formative forces and personalities), ideals, tradition and demands of modern times, weaknesses of the general staff, and finally comparisons with other general staffs.
