Strategic-Level Command Structures in the Campaign for the Defence of the Great Unification
Strategic-Level Command Structures in the Campaign for the Defence of the Great Unification

Summary/Abstract: The campaign of the Romanian Armed Forces in the 1918-1919 period was the last of the National Reunification War, conducted in the post-First World War geopolitical and geostrategic context, having as main objective to defend the Great Unification from 1918. It was a campaign conducted, in certain situations and at different times, in collaboration and cooperation with command structures and troops belonging to the armed forces of the Allied and Associated Powers engaged against the Russian, Ukrainian and Hungarian Bolshevik military forces. The Great General Headquarters and the Great General Staff, as structures responsible for designing, organising, planning and managing the military operations, had organisations and attributions tailored to meet the specific requirements, carrying out their duties depending on the situation: the attacks of the Russian and the Ukrainian Bolshevik gangs at the Dniester, the need for military cooperation with Poland, the control of the territory of Transylvania, the withdrawal of the Hungarian Bolshevik army from the Apuseni Mountains and the Tisza, the occupation of Budapest and of a largest part of Hungary. In most cases, the decision-makers within the Great General Headquarters complied with the decisions of the Allied Supreme Council in Paris and collaborated with the allied command structures located in Belgrade and Bucharest.

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