CHIEF OF STAFF

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CHIEF OF STAFF

• The Principal Staff Officers Behind Historys
  Great Commanders
• MG (ret) David T. Zabecki

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Rommels Brain Trust
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Volume I
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier
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Berthier

• Napoleon
• There was in the world a no better chief
  of Staff. That is
• where his true talent lay, for
  he was not capable of commanding
  500 men.

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August Neithardt von Gneisenau
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Helmuth Graf von Moltke
dilettante
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Randolph B. Marcey
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John A. Rawlins
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Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf
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Hermann von Kuhl
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Erich Ludendorff
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Carl Maximilian Hoffmann
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Fritz von Lossberg
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Hans von Seeckt
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Maxime Weygand
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Herbert Lawrence
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James G. Harbord
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Volume II
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Fritz Bayerlein
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Siegfried Westphal
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Friederich-Wilhelm von Mellenthin
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Hobart Gay

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Hugh Gaffey
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Vasily D. Sokolovsky
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Aleksey I. Antonov
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Eric Dorman-Smith
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Francis de Guingand
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Frederick Morgan
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Walter Bedell Smith
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Edward Almond
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Eugene Landrum
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Walter T. Kerwin, Jr.
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• Questions?

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• Conclusions?

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• ENDEX

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Mr. Inside, The Heavy Lifter

• Hoffmann
• von Lossburg
• Morgan
• Gay
• Bayerlein
• Westphal
• von Mellenthin
• Landrum

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The Alter Ego

• Gneisenau-Blücher
• Rawlins-Grant
• Weygand-Foch
• Harbord-Pershing
• Gay-Patton
• von Mellenthin-Balck
• Bedell Smith-Eisenhower

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The Senior Partner

• von Moltke-Prince Freidrich Karl
• von Knobelsdorff-Crown Prince Wilhelm
• Ludendorff-von Hindenburg

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The Whipping Boy

• Berthier-Napoleon
• de Guingand-Montgomery

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The Messenger

• Berthier-Napoleon
• Marcey-McClellan

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The Hatchet Man

• Bedell Smith-Eisenhower
• Almond-MacArthur

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The Fixer

• Marcey-McClellan
• de Guingand-Montgomery

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The Team Player

• Gay
• Morgan
• Landrum