Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became a lieutenant colonel in 1925 and served a turn in a Prussian artillery regiment. In 1930 he was back in the Defense Ministry as director of military training, with the rank of colonel. His career seemed to lie in office work, and after serving briefly as chief of staff of the 6th Artillery Regiment he was given the routine assignment of inspecting the artillery. He became a major general in 1931, chief of artillery in March...
...both Poland and Russia. It was Brauchitsch who was responsible for the East Prussian fortifications that were built after 1933 - a complicated system of blockhouses and two heavy fortresses designed to make East Prussia impregnable on the East. When he was in East Prussia, Brauchitsch's chief of staff was General Walter von Reichenau, closest of all the Army officers to the Nazis and to their chief...
After the catastrophe on the Somme in 1917, General Ludendorff was persuaded by a group of his junior staff officers to withdraw to a line running north-south behind the Canal du Nord between the Somme and the Scarpe River. By this move he saved his troops from a second Somme and shortened his line. More important, he gained the opportunity to prepare on virgin ground and far away from hostilities for defensive tactics which his bright young men, notably Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, had evolved for divisions after observing the French use for smaller units...
...April 1917, Colonel Lossberg was rewarded with the job of Ludendorff's Chief of Staff, and even though 18 months later his fortifications had fallen and his cause was lost, he had earned his brassard. When on September 29, 1918 the men of the U. S. II Corps went up against the final defenses of his Siegfried Position at Bellicourt, they had hell's own time. Between Bellicourt and Bony the St. Quentin Canal passed through a tunnel. In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved...
...Take It is a question the French General Staff must have been thinking about a long time. Steady artillery pounding, while useful for protecting advancing troops, probably cannot do the most important part of the job. In an advance, artillery must advance too, and artillery advances are not measured in hours but in days. Furthermore, artillery duels between open and emplaced positions have a way of going in favor of the latter...