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## Appendix -Table of German High Command future when he wrote -"A history of the General Staff...would be a history of quiet positive work; it would tell of arrogance and haughty acquiescence, of vanity and envy, of all human weaknesses, of the fight between genius and bureaucracy, and of the hidden causes of victory and defeat. It would take the radiance from many a halo, and it would not be lacking in tragedy." The General Staff was essentially intended to form a collective substitute for genius, which no army can count on producing at need. Of its very nature it tended to cramp the growth of genius, being a bureaucracy as well as a hierarchy, but in compensation it sought to raise the general standard of competence to a high level. The unevenness of its performance was due less to differences of individual talent than to the underlying differences of personal interest, as well as to conflicting personal views. The chance of promotion tended to make any general swallow his doubts for the moment, long enough to enable Hitler to split the solidity of professional opinion. That applies to all armies, but is particularly marked under a dictatorship. A newly-promoted general is alway

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Author

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry

Publisher

Endeavour Press;Perennial

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780688060121

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Military History, Music

Rating

3.97 / 5 (390 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14