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81-711: The Admiralty War Staff was the former senior naval staff operational planning organisation within the British Admiralty that existed from 1912 to 1917. It was instituted on 8 January 1912 by Winston Churchill in his capacity as First Lord of the Admiralty and was in effect a war council whose head reported directly to the First Sea Lord . After the First World War ended, the War Staff

162-430: A directorate-general ) is headed by a non-political director-general. This is roughly equivalent to a British permanent secretary . In France, the similar word président-directeur général (PDG) means the highest person in a company, who is at the same time chairman ( président ) of the board of directors and CEO ( directeur général ). From 2001 the two charges may be disjointed. The directeur général délégué has

243-476: A state agency , unless otherwise prescribed by higher authority. For purposes of English translations, the word director-general is officially used. In the UK's civil service , a director-general is now usually a senior civil servant (SCS) at pay band 3 level who heads up a group of other directors and reports directly to the permanent secretary of a department. For historical reasons, it has also been retained as

324-461: A Colonel Adjutant Staff Officer (Grade 2), informally known as A2: Ranked Major Adjutant Staff Officer (Grade 3), informally known as A3: Ranked Captain Q Branch, called စစ်ထောက် or ထောက် for short in Burmese, is responsible for logistical aspects such as supply and transport as well as ordnance service. Quartermaster Staff Officer (Grade 1), informally known as Q1: Ranked Lieutenant Colonel or

405-593: A Colonel Quartermaster Staff Officer (Grade 2), informally known as Q2: Ranked Major Quartermaster Staff Officer (Grade 3), informally known as Q3: Ranked Captain Prussia adopted Austria's approach in the following years, especially when Gerhard von Scharnhorst , who as a Hanoverian staff officer had worked with the Austrian army in the Austrian Netherlands in the early 1790s, took charge. Initially,

486-495: A Headquarters and also supervise and support subordinate units. The finance branch, not to be confused with Administration from which it has split, sets the finance policy for the operation. Operationally, the Administration and Finance may be interlinked, but have separate reporting chains. Civil-Military Co-operation or civil affairs are the activities that establish, maintain, influence, or exploit relations between

567-522: A board of executive directors ( Vorstand ) with a chairman ( Vorstandsvorsitzender ). The term is also used by German Institute Taipei , Germany's informal representative mission to the Republic of China (Taiwan) , to refer to its head of mission , as well as the suggested translation for senior executive positions ( Abteilungsleiterin or Abteilungsleiter ) in German ministries. Several positions in

648-408: A company (similar to a US corporation) is either the general manager or CEO of the company. In South Africa, the term refers to the non-political head of the national government and its departments . Provincial governments also have directors-general and they hold similar roles to their national counterparts. In Sweden, the cognate word Generaldirektör (GD) is the generic title for the head of

729-408: A department. Directors general typically report to a more senior civil servant, such as an assistant deputy minister or associate deputy minister. The title "director general" is not usually used within the civil services of the ten provincial governments, nor the three territorial governments; instead, these civil services usually use the title "executive director", or "director". Deputy ministers are

810-591: A fourth function was added, the Trade Division, which was created for matters relating to the protection of merchant shipping. The Trade Division was abolished in October 1909 in the wake of the Committee of Imperial Defence inquiry into the feud between the First Sea Lord , Admiral Sir John Fisher and former Commander-in-Chief Channel Fleet , Admiral Lord Charles Beresford , when it was discovered that

891-474: A more appropriate tasker within the unit to be handled and resolved, which would otherwise be an unnecessary distraction for the Commanding Officer who already makes numerous decisions every day. In addition, a staff aims to carefully craft any useful situations and utilize that information. In a generic command staff, more seasoned and senior officers oversee staff sections of groups organized by

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972-722: A more important role for the Generalquartiermeister (Chief of Staff). The failures in the army, especially at the Battle of Leuthen made it clear that Austria had no "great brain" and the command needed to spread the workload to allow the Commander-in-chief the time to consider the strategic picture. The 1757 regulations had created the Grosse Feldgeneralstab and Kleine Generalstab (large and small general staff) and after changes in 1769,

1053-569: A new Chief of the War Staff answerable to the Board of Admiralty and supported by an Assistant Chief of the War Staff. In January 1912, the First Lord released his communique detailing the administrative function of the new department and listed the following new appointments. From 1912, onward additional divisions were established headed by directors responsible for their particular function. At its founding, 12 officers were selected to undergo

1134-489: A particular soldier) or from the top down (such as orders being received from the army level directing that a particular soldier be reassigned to a new unit outside the command). In army units, this person is often called the Adjutant . The S-1 also works with the postal mailing office, and deals with awards and ranks as well. The intelligence section is responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence information about

1215-628: A permanent staff of 30 officers was established under the direction of Franz Moritz von Lacy , which would be expanded in wartime with junior officers. The Grosse staff was divided into three: First, the Intrinsecum , which handled internal administration and directing operations; secondly, external activities, including the Pioneers ; thirdly, the Inspection Service, which handled the issuing of orders and prisoners of war. Alongside

1296-1043: A proposal for a Navy War Council composed of the First Sea Lord as President, the Director of Naval Intelligence as Vice-President, an Assistant Director for War, the President and the Captain of the Royal Naval War College , and the Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord . The head of the Naval Intelligence Department's War Division and the Commander of the Royal Naval War College were to act as Joint Secretaries. In 1911, Winston Churchill ,

1377-421: A role similar to that of a chief operating officer. French ministries are divided into general directorates ( directions générales ), sometimes named central directorates ( directions centrales ) or simply directorates ( directions ), headed respectively by a directeur général , a directeur central , or a directeur . Prior to the coup d'état of 1974 which overthrew the government of Emperor Haile Selassie ,

1458-492: A role. The staff numbers are assigned according to custom, not hierarchy, traceable back to French practice; i.e., 1 is not "higher ranking" than 2 . This list reflects the SHAPE structure: Since the original continental staff system only covered branches 1 through 6, it is not uncommon to see 7 through 9 omitted or having various meanings. Common variation include merging of 3 and 5 to 3 , Operations and Plans; omitting

1539-418: A small independent element, that is a part of a non-staff organization; i.e., an E3 is an operational element on a logistics site or an E4 is a logistics element on a forward medical support site. Thus, the personnel officer of a naval headquarters would be referred to as N1 . In reality, in large organizations each of these staff functions will require the support of its own large staff, so N1 refers both to

1620-517: A staff, whose chief was responsible for directing operations and executing the overall headquarters plan. The staff on the outbreak of war in 1809 numbered over 170. Finally in 1811, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz produced his Über die bessere Einrichtung des Generalstabs , which prioritised the Chief of Staff's managerial and supervisory role with the departments (Political Correspondence, Operations and Service) under their own directors, effectively merging

1701-459: Is a chief administrative officer nominated by the president of province or by the mayor. The title of direttore generale is also given to the chief executive of an azienda sanitaria , a local public agency for health services. The word director-general was used in the Philippines as a highest ranking law enforcer, which means the head of a law enforcement agency. Such agencies are: It

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1782-451: Is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer , within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution . The term is commonly used in many countries worldwide, but with various meanings. In most Australian states, the director-general is the most senior civil servant in any government department, reporting only to the democratically elected minister representing that department. In Victoria and

1863-460: Is also used in various government agencies as the agency's chief of office: A general director is the highest executive position in a Russian company, analogous to a US chief executive officer (CEO), or a UK managing director (MD). The position exists for all Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) legal forms (e.g. joint stock companies (AO) and limited-liability companies (OOO)), except for sole proprietorships (IP). The general director

1944-564: Is responsible for Responsible for intelligence, training and every aspect of operations. General Staff Officer (Grade 1), informally known as G1: Ranked Lieutenant Colonel or a Colonel General Staff Officer (Grade 2), informally known as G2: Ranked Major General Staff Officer (Grade 3), informally known as G3: Ranked Captain A Branch, called စစ်ရေး or ရေး for short in Burmese, is responsible for every aspect of personnel management such as medical and military. Adjutant Staff Officer (Grade 1), informally known as A1: Ranked Lieutenant Colonel or

2025-548: Is responsible for managing the wide scope of materiel , transport, facilities, services and medical/health support: By NATO doctrine, the logistic staff is tasked with overseeing logistic aspects and principles, where the focus is that "logistic support must be focused towards ensuring the success of the operation" and prescriptions of elements such as responsibility and authority. A logistic staff may be divided into sections based on branch or geographic area. Each section may in turn also be divided into tasks and roles. The size of

2106-419: Is the "single-person executive body" of a company, acts without power of attorney to represent the company, and issues powers of attorney to others. The general director's powers are defined by the company charter, by decision of the general meeting of shareholders (AO) or participants (OOO), and by the board of directors. In Spain, México, and other Spanish-speaking countries, the term director general of

2187-514: Is the point of contact for the issue of communications instructions and protocol during operations as well as for communications troubleshooting, issue, and preventative maintenance. Communications at this level is paired with digital as well as voice (radio, computer, etc.). At the unit level, S-6 is also usually responsible for all electronic systems within a unit to include computers, faxes, copy machines, and phone systems. The training branch will organize and coordinate training activity conducted by

2268-915: The Australian Commonwealth Military Forces (now the Australian Army ) adopted many of the practices of the British Army, including its staff system. While this approach was modified and adapted over the course of the 20th Century, the British three branch system and nomenclature remained a feature of Australian practice until 1997 when it adopted the Common Joint Staff System , based on the NATO or Continental/General Staff System, across all three services. The primary reasons given for this were

2349-527: The Australian government , the equivalent position is the secretary of the department. The Australian Defence Force Cadets has three directors-general which are all one-star ranks : In Canada , the title director general is used in the federal civil service, known as the Public Service of Canada . A director general in the federal government is typically not the most senior civil servant in

2430-602: The British Broadcasting Corporation also uses the title despite there being no link to the civil service grading structure. The head of the National Trust also holds the title. The head of Camping and Caravanning Club also holds the title of Director General. This term is used in international organisations and government departments, although this sort of position is more commonly called an "executive director" or "managing director" in

2511-839: The Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (DCNS) and the Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (ACNS). Chiefs of the War Staff included: Assistants to the Chiefs of the War Staff included: Special Service, War Staff included: As of December 1916, operational divisions included: Primary source for this article is by Harley Simon, Lovell Tony, (2017), Admiralty War Staff (Royal Navy), dreadnoughtproject.org, http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org . Military staff A commander "commands" through their personal authority, decision-making and leadership, and uses general staff to exercise

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2592-739: The First Lord of the Admiralty , communicated to the Prime Minister that the Admiral of the Fleet was opposed to any formation of a new naval staff, and because of this he insisted that he be relieved of his duties by January 1912. Churchill would continue to brief the Prime Minister as the project developed and advised him as to what the composition of the new staff department might initially entail: These divisions would be headed by

2673-522: The French Army of Italy in 1795, his was the old administrative role, accurately described by Jomini and Vachee as "the chief clerk" and "of limited competence". His manual is merely a reporting system as a kind of office manual. Staff officers were rotated out of the line on the Austrian model, but received no training and merely became efficient in the administrative tasks, especially the rapid issuance of orders. It suited Napoleon Bonaparte from

2754-838: The Hong Kong government bear titled director-general, including the directors-general of investment promotion , of trade and industry , of civil aviation , and of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London . In India, director general may refer to the Director General of the Border Security Force or to the Director General of Police , who is the highest ranking official in the Central Armed Police Forces ,

2835-893: The National Disaster Response Force , and the Indian Coast Guard . In addition, the head of many government agencies are also referred to as directors general , like the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India , the Director General of the Central Statistics Office , the Director General of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) , the Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research , etc. In Italy ,

2916-462: The Prussian Army assigned a limited number of technical expert officers to support field commanders. Before 1746, however, reforms had added management of intelligence and contingency planning to the staff's duties. Later, the practice was initiated of rotating officers from command to staff assignments and back to familiarize them with both aspects of military operations, a practice that, with

2997-559: The Secretary of Defense . The "Continental Staff System", also known as the "General Staff System" (GSS), is used by most NATO countries in structuring their militaries' staff functions. In this system, which is based on one originally employed by the French Army in the 19th century, each staff position in a headquarters or unit is assigned a letter-prefix corresponding to the formation's element and one or more numbers specifying

3078-566: The direttore generale of a company is a corporate officer who reports to the CEO ( amministratore delegato ) and has duties similar to a chief operating officer . Some Italian ministries are divided into departments ( dipartimenti ), which are in turn divided into general directorates ( direzioni generali ) headed by a direttore generale . Other ministries, which do not have departments, are directly divided into general directorates. In Italian provinces and greatest communes , direttore generale

3159-666: The "control" on their behalf in a large unit. Most NATO nations, including the United States and most European nations, use the Continental Staff System which has origin in Napoleon 's military. The Commonwealth Staff System, used by most of the Commonwealth , has its origin in the British military. One of the key purposes of a military staff is to provide accurate, timely information (which includes

3240-609: The Adjutants and General Staff officers. In this system lay the beginnings of a formal staff corps, whose members could specialise in operations, intelligence and logistics. Despite a short lived permanent staff under St-Cyr (1783–90), the French reverted to the old system in 1790, when the Revolutionary Government abolished the staff corps. When General Louis Alexandre Berthier was appointed Chief of Staff to

3321-534: The British Army was thought too small to support separate staff and command career streams. Officers would typically alternate between staff and command. Beevor, Inside the British Army, says instead that the terrible cleavages between staff and line units caused by the enormous losses during the trench warfare of the World War I meant that senior British officers consequently decided that all officers would rotate between staff and line responsibilities, preventing

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3402-417: The CEO of a large and established concern, corporation, company or enterprise, particularly if subordinates have the title director . The title is, however, unofficial (theoretically any person, and even practically every entrepreneur with one employee, may call himself director-general) and by now largely out of use. Officially a GmbH has a Geschäftsführer ('managing director'), an Aktiengesellschaft , and

3483-406: The Commander-in-chief. In 1796, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen augmented these with his own Observationspunkte , writing of the Chief of Staff: "he is duty bound to consider all possibilities related to operations and not view himself as merely carrying out those instructions". On 20 March 1801, Feldmarschalleutnant Duka became the world's first peacetime Generalquartiermeister at the head of

3564-517: The Fleet are issued, but the Staff will possess no executive authority. It will discharge no administrative duties. Its responsibilities will end with the tendering of advice and with the accuracy of the facts on which that advice is based. In early spring 1917 the name "War Staff" was abolished and a replaced by an Admiralty Naval Staff. The First Sea Lord also assumed title of Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) and staff functions were grouped under two new heads,

3645-571: The General Staff was the General Adjutant, who led a group of Adjutant staff selected by the army commanders to handle the details of internal administration and collating intelligence, and answered to the Commander-in-chief. The Chief of Staff became the chief adviser to the Commander-in-chief and, in a fundamental move away from the previous administrative role, the Chief of Staff now undertook operational planning, while delegating

3726-639: The Joint Staff of today works directly for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than the corporate Joint Chiefs of Staff , as they did from 1947 to 1986. Under this scheme, operational command and control of military forces are not the province of the Joint Staff, but that of combatant commanders , who report through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unless otherwise directed, to

3807-499: The NID had been in fact fulfilling since at least 1900, if not earlier. After this re-organisation, war planning and strategic matters were transferred to the newly created Naval Mobilisation Department (NMD), and the NID reverted to the position it held prior to 1887, an intelligence collection and collation organisation, but its director remained one of the First Sea Lord's principal advisors. Sir John Fisher had made known his support for

3888-595: The Royal Canadian Navy, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy , is also titled as Chief of Naval Staff. The head of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force , is also titled as Chief of Air Force Staff. Director-general A director general , general director or director-general (plural: directors general , general directors , directors-general , director generals or director-generals )

3969-602: The United States. Typically, the chief administrative officer of an opera company in the US holds the title of "general director". Such was the case with singer and conductor Plácido Domingo , who formerly functioned in that capacity for the Los Angeles Opera , as he had previously for the Washington National Opera . In another prominent example, Speight Jenkins served as the general director of

4050-607: The ability to standardise staff organisations across the breadth and depth of the services, and; improve interoperability between America, Britain, Canada and Australia, as well as NATO partners that employed this system. At this time the Australian Defence Force also developed its own Joint Military Appreciation Proces s (JMAP), itself derived from the US Tactical Decision-Making Process and UK Individual Estimate. The head of

4131-464: The addition of enlisted personnel, continues to be used. After 1806, Prussia's military academies trained mid-level officers in specialist staff skills. In 1814, Prussia formally established by law a central military command— Prussian General Staff —and a separate staff for each division and corps . Despite some professional and political issues with the Prussian system, especially when viewed through

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4212-427: The budget officer in the operations section of the intelligence department; A1.1-1-1 might simply be a receptionist). The manpower or personnel officer supervises personnel and administration systems. This department functions as the essential administrative liaison between the subordinate units and the headquarters, handling personnel actions coming from the bottom up (such as a request for an award to be given to

4293-522: The captain heading the Trade Division had been supplying the latter with confidential information during the inquiry. Following restructuring the NID was relieved of its responsibility for war planning and strategy when the outgoing Fisher created an Admiralty Navy War Council as a stop-gap remedy to criticisms emanating from the Beresford Inquiry that the Navy needed a naval staff, a role

4374-441: The chief civil servant of a government ministry or independent state agency was known by the title of director-general . In contemporary Ethiopia, the head official of independent agencies such as the Information Network Security Agency or the Ethiopian Investment Corporation is titled director-general , as are second-tier divisions within ministries, below [permanent] secretariats. In Germany, Generaldirektor may be used for

4455-440: The chief of the column staff and his principal task would be to help the commander to understand what was intended. When Karl Mack von Leiberich became chief of staff of the army under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in the Netherlands, he issued the Instruktionspunkte für gesammte Herren Generals , the last of 19 points setting out the roles of staff officers, dealing with offensive and defensive operations, while helping

4536-472: The command overall, clarifying matters overall. This frees up the most senior members of the command at each level for decision making and issuing direction for further research or information gathering (perhaps requiring men to put their lives at risk to gather additional intelligence). Operations staff officers also are tasked with battle planning both for offensive and defensive conditions, and issuing contingency plans for handling situations anticipated during

4617-407: The continental system, 1 is higher ranking than 2 followed by 3. Despite being called GSO, ASO and QSO in English, all of them are translated as either စစ်ဦးစီးမှူး for G (or) ဦးစီးအရာရှိ for A and Q in Burmese . You can check the 2010/2011 military command structure of Myanmar in the photo shown below which still uses the same staff system G Branch, called စစ်ဦးစီး or ဦး for short in Burmese,

4698-405: The development of a separate general staff corps. The National Security Act of 1947 instead created a Joint Staff populated by military service members who, rather than becoming career staff officers on the German general staff model, rotate into (and back out of) joint staff positions. Following the major revision of Title 10 of the United States Code by the Goldwater–Nichols Act in 1986,

4779-574: The enemy to determine what the enemy is doing or might do, to prevent the accomplishment of the enemy's mission. This office may also control maps and geographical information systems and data. At the unit level, the S-2 is the unit's security officer, and the S-2 section manages all security clearance issues for the unit's personnel. Other duties of the S-2 often include intelligence oversight and physical security . The operations office may include plans and training. The operations office plans and coordinates operations, and all things necessary to enable

4860-457: The foreseeable future. Prior to the late 18th century, there was generally no organizational support for staff functions such as military intelligence , logistics , planning or personnel. Unit commanders handled such functions for their units, with informal help from subordinates who were usually not trained for or assigned to a specific task. Count Leopold Joseph von Daun , in a letter to Empress Maria Theresa in January 1758, pressed for

4941-401: The formation to operate and accomplish its mission. In most units, the operations office is the largest of the staff sections and considered the most important. All aspects of sustaining the unit's operations, planning future operations, and additionally planning and executing all unit training, fall under the responsibility of operations. The operations office is also tasked with keeping track of

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5022-441: The highest level bureaucrat within the Canadian civil service at the federal, provincial and territorial levels. Deputy ministers are not politicians but non-partisan civil servants. Outside the federal, provincial and territorial civil services, some public sector agencies such as school boards in Quebec use the title "director general". In the European Commission and the Council of the European Union , each department (called

5103-432: The information is not pertinent to the unit, it is redirected to the command level which can best utilize the condition or information. Staffs are generally the first to know of issues that affect its group. Issues that require major decisions affecting the unit's operational capability are communicated to the commanding officer. However, not all issues will be handled by the commander. Smaller matters that arise are given to

5184-438: The logistic staff can vary greatly, depending on the environment and complexity of operations. NATO in example work with a "Multinational Joint Logistic Centre", which exists outside of the force commander's staff, but runs as a separate entity/unit, with only a few logistic personnel in the commander's staff who act as liaisons. The plans and strategy office is responsible for civil military operations (CMO) strategy planning. At

5265-474: The military forces, the government or non-government civilian organizations and authorities, and the civilian populace in a friendly, neutral, or hostile area of operations in order to facilitate military operations and consolidate and achieve mission objectives. The "Commonwealth staff system", used by most Commonwealth nations, is largely based on the British military's staff system with nation-specific variations. Following Australia's Federation in 1901,

5346-435: The moment he took over the army the following year and he would use Berthier's system throughout his wars. Crucially, Napoleon remained his own intelligence chief and operational planner, a workload which, ultimately, not even he could cope with. Overall staff system structure is generally similar to the pre 1984 British Army system with G Branch, A Branch and Q Branch with slightly different staff officer position names. Unlike

5427-473: The need of a Naval Staff as early as 1902. In creating a staff the Admiralty was certainly lagging behind, particularly when the War Office had a General Staff department as early as 1904, to deal with the aftermath of the Boer War and an assessment of the problems they faced the Admiralty . However, at this point it had no Senior Staff department. In May 1909, the Director of Naval Intelligence , Rear-Admiral The Honourable Alexander E. Bethell , submitted

5508-460: The needs of the unit. Senior Enlisted Personnel task personnel in the maintenance of tactical equipment and vehicles. Senior Analysts are tasked with the finalizing of reports, and their enlisted personnel participate in the acquisition of information from subordinate staffs and units. This hierarchy places decision making and reporting under the auspices of the most experienced personnel and maximizes information flow of pertinent information sent out of

5589-407: The new course of training for staff officer. Reginald Plunkett was the first officer selected. As stated in the Churchill Memorandum on a War Staff for the Royal Navy Point 10: The functions of the War Staff will be advisory. The Chief of the Staff, when decision has been taken upon any proposal, will be jointly responsible with the secretary for the precise form in which the necessary orders to

5670-477: The office and the officer in charge of it. The continental staff system can be carried down to the next level: J1.3 (or J13 , sometimes the dot-separator is omitted) is thus the operations officer of the personnel office of a joint headquarters, but the exact definition of the roles at this level may vary. Below this, numbers can be attached following a hyphen, but these are usually only positional numbers assigned arbitrarily to identify individuals ( G2.3-2 could be

5751-409: The position of a modern Chief of Staff: "The Chief of Staff stands at the side of the Commander-in-Chief and is completely at his disposal. His sphere of work connects him with no specific unit". "The Commander-in-Chief decides what should happen and how; his chief assistant works out these decisions, so that each subordinate understands his allotted task". With the creation of the Korps in 1809, each had

5832-651: The prism of the 20th century World Wars, their General Staff concept has been adopted by many large armies in existence today. Before the Crimean War staff work was looked at "with great disdain" in the British Army ; the hardships of that war caused by disorganization led to a change in attitude. The General Staff in Britain was formed in 1905, and reorganized again in 1908. Unlike the Prussian staff system,

5913-406: The professional title of the chief executive officers in some organisations which predate the current SCS structure and therefore may be used by those people despite them working at different pay bands. For example, the head of the UK's internal security service MI5 is also called director-general, despite the fact that the post is at permanent secretary (pay band 4) level. The chief executive of

5994-524: The results of contingency planning) on which command decisions are based. A goal is being able to suggest approaches or help produce well-informed decisions that will effectively manage and conserve unit resources. In addition to generating information, the staff also manages the flow of communication within the unit and around it. While controlled information flow toward the commander is a priority, those useful or contingent in nature are communicated to lower-level units and/or through their respective staffs. If

6075-414: The routine work to his senior staff officers. Staff officers were drawn from line units and would later return to them, the intention being that they would prove themselves as leaders during their time with the staff. In a battle or when the army had detached corps, a small number of staff would be allocated to the column commander as a smaller version of headquarters. The senior man, usually a Major, would be

6156-423: The simple G , which is retained in place for modern army usage. But the increasing complexity of modern armies, not to speak of the spread of the staff concept to naval, air and other elements, has demanded the addition of new prefixes. These element prefixes are: On some occasions the letter E can also be observed, though it is not an official term. In that case it is for element and it will be used to identify

6237-609: The staff and the wartime role of the Chief of Staff was now focused on planning and operations to assist the Commander. Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen himself produced a new Dienstvorschrift on 1 September 1805, which divided the staff into three: 1) Political Correspondence; 2) the Operations Directorate, dealing with planning and intelligence; 3) the Service Directorate, dealing with administration, supply and military justice. The Archduke set out

6318-648: The training branch and utilizing 7 for engineering (as seen in US Military Sealift Command and Multinational Forces-Iraq (MNF-I) ) and replacing 9 with a legal branch (making CIMIC a part of another branch, i.e. 2 or 4) as seen with the UK Permanent Joint Headquarters. Derived from the Prussian Große Generalstab (Great General Staff), traditionally these staff functions were prefixed by

6399-486: The unit level, the S-5 is the primary adviser to the commander on the civilian-to-military and military-to-civilian impact of the mission/operation within the host nation's (HN) area of interest (AOI), area of operations (AO), or the target area of interest (TAOI). The G5 serves as the mission support office (MSO) at the division level and HHC for civil military plans and strategy. The signal office directs all communications and

6480-512: The weekly training schedules. In most military units (i.e., battalion , regiment , and brigade ), the operations officer carries the same rank as the executive officer (XO), but ranks third in the unit's chain of command while the other staff officers are one rank lower. For example, in a battalion, the S-3 would hold the rank of major (like the battalion XO), while the remaining staff officers are captains or lieutenants . The logistics office

6561-648: Was replaced by the Admiralty Naval Staff department. The department's development can be traced back to 1887. It evolved out of some of the functions within the Naval Intelligence Department (NID), which originally administered two divisions: Foreign Intelligence Division and Mobilisation Division. In 1900 a Defence Division was created, later called the War Division, to deal with issues of strategy and defence. In 1902

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