German Officer Strategic Education: A Critical Omission

Most military professionals today would agree that no amount of tactical success can make up for a failure to plan strategically. Some countries, however, have overlooked this fact. Hans Delbruck, a noted German military historian and strategist, concluded that senior German planners failed to think...

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Main Author: Cassidy, Patrick J
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ARMY TRAINING
CORPS LEVEL ORGANIZATIONS
EDUCATION
GERMAN OFFICERS
GERMANY(EAST AND WEST)
Humanities and History
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
MILITARY COMMANDERS
Military Forces and Organizations
MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
MILITARY PLANNING
OFFICER PERSONNEL
PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
SECOND WORLD WAR
STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT
WEST GERMANY
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Summary:Most military professionals today would agree that no amount of tactical success can make up for a failure to plan strategically. Some countries, however, have overlooked this fact. Hans Delbruck, a noted German military historian and strategist, concluded that senior German planners failed to think and plan strategically during World War I. Incredibly, German planners again neglected strategic planning in World War II. Delbruck's thesis raises some interesting questions: Was there actually a general lack of strategic level thinking in the German officer corps? If this was true, was the failure to think and plan on the strategic level of war due to a lack of officer professional education? This SRP concludes that the German officer corps did not have a proper appreciation or education for the strategic level of war.