Quotes about General Staff

Kim Jong-un

Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced.

Claus von Stauffenberg

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

Simone Weil

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Kim Jong-un

For our country and people, October 10 is a meaningful revolutionary holiday when they celebrate the birth anniversary of the genuine vanguard of the revolution, its militant General Staff, which has taken responsibility for their destiny and leads them.

Mark Skinner Watson

The National Defense Act of 1916 left the United States with a General Staff of 19 officers, against Germany's 650.

This was an official publication of the U. S. Army. The First World War had very little affect on future military preparedness At that time conservatives in Congress were very isolationist and military preparedness was not a high priority or even a significant political issue. The Democrats then were more supportive of military spending than the Republicans. It took World War II, for which America was very unprepared, to produce a change in public and political opinion regarding military preparedness.

George C. Marshall

There is no group today in America who view the possibilities of war with more horror, and consider the large appropriations involved with more reluctance than do the officers of the General Staff. There is no thought in our minds to seize upon the dilemma of this tragic world situation as an opportunity to aggrandize the Army.

Then Chief of Staff of the Army, he was asking for a large military appropriation.

Nelson A. Miles

… utterly subversive to the interest of the military establishment.

At the time, there were no civilians staff such as the Assistant Secretaries of the individual services and Assistant secretaries of Defense. All military staff work, policy and operations, were done completely by military personnel.

Lane Kirkland

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Hap Arnold

There is no time for normal General Staff procedure. Speed is essential and your efforts should be informal.

The United States at the time was overly weak in military preparedness. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had authorized the rapid building and deployment of 10,000 airplanes. Arnold cut through all the bureaucracy and red tape.

General Staff Quotes