"General staff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... elaborated by such general staffs. In the campaigns of 1813-14, the sovereigns of Russia and Prussia were surrounded by their respective general, and not only personal staffs. With the Colonels Dybitsch and Toll, of the Russian general staff, originated that bold, direct march on Paris, whose results changed the destinies of Europe. Other similar, although not so mighty facts are easily found in ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski
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... people. The latter is Prussian discipline, the discipline of a harsh machine-like, logical organization, based on the rule of a military autocracy. It assumes that if you do not crush your opponent first, he will crush you. It is the discipline of a nation ruled by its General Staff, assuming war as the normal condition of peoples, and attempting with remorseless logic to extend its operations to the destruction of freedom everywhere. It can only be met by the discipline of a people who use their own government for worthy ends, who preserve ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner
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... in this volume are based upon the official Text-books issued by the Imperial General Staff and upon the works of recognised authorities on the ...
— Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers • Anonymous
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... briefest delay. But Secretary Baker replied that without authorization by Congress, he could not accept such bodies of Volunteers. On being pressed further, Mr. Baker replied that the War College Division of the General Staff wished the officers of the Regular Army to be kept at home, in order to train new men, and then to lead the first ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer
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... through the grounds of a large chateau only to find the road barred by an impassable combination of ditches, barriers, and barbed wire. We went back again to Ferrieres, which we learned had been the seat of the British General Staff only that morning, and from there continued southward for several miles to another village called Pontcarre. Here at last we found a straight and open road to the east. We turned down it at top speed, not having the faintest ...
— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood
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