“General staff officer candidates were chosen from the regular army's officer corps to take a rigorous examination. If they passed, they were then sent to the academy system for years of educational studies. If they passed that, they were then full general-staff officers and assigned and administered not by the regular army, but by the general staff itself.” StaffOperational ArtMilitary AcademyMilitary StaffGeneral StaffGerman Operational ThoughtProfessional Military EducationSandhurst Model Book:On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines Source: On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines