Staff-officers Sentence Examples

The number of field battalions was nearly doubled, two-thirds of the artillery received breech-loading rifled guns, the infantry had for some years had the breech-loading "needlegun," and steps were initiated to train an adequate number of staff officers to a uniform appreciation of strategical problems, based on Moltke's personal interpretation of Clausewitz's Vom Kriege.

Marshal Oyama sent his principal staff officers to stimulate Nogi to fresh efforts, and some exhausted units of the besieging army were replaced by fresh troops from Japan.

With 100,000 men and this urgent need of immediate victory, Nogi and the marshal's staff officers felt bound to make a third general assault.

Army than the " German staff officers or Goiginger, who were Krauss's authorities."

Not least because he was highly critical of Headquarters Staff Officers whilst being generally complimentary of professional soldiers at the battalion level.

Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest lay in the general progress of the war.