The Conception of the Armed Forces General Staff regarding the Defence of Dobrogea at the Beginning of the 20th Century
The Conception of the Armed Forces General Staff regarding the Defence of Dobrogea at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Romanian General Staff was busy constructing Romania’s defence doctrine. They were focused on the most probable situations, in which Romania would be forced to defend itself.The officers of the General Staff used reports from the military attachés in Petersburg and Sofia and identified that Dobrogea was targeted by two potential aggressors – Russia and Bulgaria.This is why the planners made detailed drafts to those defence plans, focusing on the different defence lines from the Danube Delta to the Black Sea Coast, in the case of a Russian aggression. For southern Dobrogea, a delicate area after the signing of Peace of Bucharest in 1913, when Romania received the counties of Durostor and Caliacra (or Quadrilateral, as it appears on Romanian military maps), new alignments were viewed as essential for the defence of the area against the Bulgarians.

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