General Alexandru Ioanițiu – From the Military Historical Service to the General Staff –
General Alexandru Ioanițiu – From the Military Historical Service to the General Staff –

Summary/Abstract: Young Officer Alexandru Ioanițiu’s fate was foreshadowed in exceptional conditions, as it was his entire career during the difficult years of the First World War. Active participant in the frontline, involved alongside his subunit and regiment in the battles in Dobruja, on the Neajlov and in Mărăşeşti, exceptionally promoted from the rank of lieutenant to that of major in only two years,promoted from battery commander directly to teacher at the School of Artillery and Engineering, and subsequently, within the Historical Service of the General Staff, Professor of Military History and Commander of the Superior War School,to become Chief of the General Staff, to name only some of the landmarks of a“splendid” military career prematurely and tragically ended.The current article attempts to outline, without the ideological shadow which marked the society back then, the profile of military thinker Alexandru Ioanițiu, his personality asserted through consistent pieces of work and studies in military history and strategy, gravitating around the theory of armed fighting,planning and command of operations within the campaign, reorganisation and equipment of the armed forces, in the context of the major conflict that was foreseen and also of his own experience on the battlefield.

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