THE OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE – A CENTURY AND A HALF OF EXISTENCE WITHIN THE GENERAL STAFF – Cover Image

THE OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE – A CENTURY AND A HALF OF EXISTENCE WITHIN THE GENERAL STAFF –
THE OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE – A CENTURY AND A HALF OF EXISTENCE WITHIN THE GENERAL STAFF –

Author(s): Dumitru Scarlat
Subject(s): Military history, Security and defense, Military policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Centrul tehnic-editorial al armatei
Keywords: foreign aggression; manoeuvre organisation and command; national defence system; modern military body; national territory;

Summary/Abstract: In the author’s opinion, the Romanian Armed Forces participation in wars, its military successes and failures cannot be understood and assessed unless a minimum reference is made to the activity of the superior conception and command body – the Great General Staff, the Great Headquarters respectively. Thus the operations structure/ the Operations Section of the Great General Staff, through the quality and timeliness of the specific documents drawn up, as well as through the original solutions and the practical measures taken to solve some difficult and complex strategic-operative situations, imposed itself during the First World War as one of the central elite bodies of our armed forces. The Operations Section directly influenced the victorious path of our armed forces, making a distinctive mark on the physiognomy of the most significant moments of the War of National Reunification.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 53-64
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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