Full powers were given to the government and the general staff headquarters respectively.
He found ready support among his colleagues on the general staff, desperate to limit the quantity of armaments to be assigned to colonial defence.
The general staff itself consisted of officers proven as unit commanders.
But the general staff had learnt two lessons.
Far from turning its back on new military technologies, the general staff radically re-wrote its doctrine in the 1920s.
The general staff thought that one doctrine could cover all cases.
The military element was made up of the chief of the general staff, the adjutantgeneral, the quartermaster-general, and the master-general of the ordnance.
At the same time, higher colonial recruitment became more appealing to the general staff, struggling to adjust to its shrinking defence budget.
