Nagy-L István szerk.: Pápai Múzeumi Értesítő 11. (Pápa, 2006)

Haderő és hadviselés 1809-ben - DAVID HOLLINS: Ausztria vezérleti rendszere - a modern szervezet eredete

concept of operations - Bernadotte was left unaware of what he should do, when Davout encountered a much larger Prussian army at Auerstadt. The Napoleonic Modell The main spies Napoleon (Army Commander) Political Department Direct Intelligence D'Albe (Recce) Orders/Plans Berthier (Chief of Staff) Troop Movements t Intelligence Personnel Here we can see the reality - all the key information comes into Napoleon, including the reports sent to Bachler d'Albe, who ran the famous map table. The political and policy side of the command is entirely separate and was usually run by Maret. Berthier was relegated to a passive role, looking after the logistics and army administration. It is nothing more than the modern Intelligence and Operations Registry headed up a senior NCO. As the American author, Colonel Elting, wrote "The Grand Quartier-General was designed to fit Napoleon's method of making war, and Napoleon was his own chief of Operations". Austria's Staff System The modern western military structure was established in the mid-1970s when NATO adopted the American system. The commanding General sits in that awkward zone between heading the army and answering to his political masters - it is they who set the objectives which he is to achieve and as we saw in Iraq in 1991, it is they who can hold a successful army back from a total victory for their own reasons. The Commander-in-Chief's right hand man, who often shares his office, is the Chief of Staff, who both advises his boss and manages the staff. The staff command structure is divided into five functions: Gl (Policy and Administration), G2 (Intelligence and Security), G3 (Operations, Planning and Training), G4 (Logistics) and G5 (Military Government,