Noun
military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy
Source: WordNetIf you feel that the Chief of the General Staff talks only rubbish, my place is not here. Better to give me a command at the front where I can be of better use! Georgy Zhukov
We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end. Lane Kirkland
It came down, once again, to the General Staff protecting itself, not wanting to admit its crime, an abomination that has been growing by the minute. Émile Zola
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. Claus von Stauffenberg
Every morning my day begins with an SMS from the General Staff. Over the past 24 hours there were 7 occasions of shelling and two casualties. Figures may vary, but only one figure makes the morning good. It is zero. The shelling is zero. The loss is zero. Volodymyr Zelenskyy
According to Aron, Clausewitz was one of the first writers to condemn the militarism of the Prussian general staff and its war-proneness, based on Clausewitz's argument that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." Source: Internet