unless it was an academic endeavor. I have spent the majority of my professional life as a staff officer and it is neither fun nor interesting. The only saving grace is that if it is done right (knowing that you work for the best interests of the line) it can make life easier for soldiers. Variations of that statement are bandied about to the point of it being a cliche, but that doesn't make it less true.
Have any of these made it to your list of secondary souces?
The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militarische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805
by Charles Edward White
Understanding the Prussian-German General Staff system by Christian O. E Millotat
The Politics of the Prussian Army: 1640-1945 by Gordon A. Craig
The Right Hand of Command: Use and Disuse of Personal Staffs in the American Civil War by R. Steven Jones
Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff (The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986) by Gordon Nathaniel Lederman
The Chief of Staff: The Military Career of General Walter Bedell Smith by D.K.R. Crosswell
Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons: Staff and Headquarters Operations in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by J. Boone Bartholomees
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