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The study analyses the methods of training staff officers abroad in the period between the War of Independence and the Second World War. The phenomenon depended to a large extent on the culture and civilisation model followed by Romania in the particular period. The staff officers who were trained abroad played an important role in the modernisation of the Romanian military body, occupying positions of great responsibility such as ministers of war, chiefs of general staff, commanders of army corps and divisions, directors or professors at the Superior War School as well as noted military theoreticians. Among them we can mention Alexandru Averescu, Grigore Crãiniceanu, Constantin Christescu, Leon Mavrocordat, Constantin Prezan, Constantin Iancovescu, Alexandru Iarca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyses the methods of training staff officers abroad in the period between the War of Independence and the Second World War. The phenomenon depended to a large extent on the culture and civilisation model followed by Romania in the particular period. The staff officers who were trained abroad played an important role in the modernisation of the Romanian military body, occupying positions of great responsibility such as ministers of war, chiefs of general staff, commanders of army corps and divisions, directors or professors at the Superior School of War as well as noted military theoreticians. Among them we can mention Alexandru Averescu, Grigore Cr`iniceanu, Constantin Christescu, Leon Mavrocordat, Constantin Prezan, Constantin Iancovescu, Alexandru Iarca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the efforts of the Romanian authorities in the late nineteenth century to improve the quality of training the Romanian officer corps by creating an official framework of relations with the allies -- within the Triple Alliance -- Germany and Austria-Hungary. The negotiations conducted by the Liberal government led by Dimitrie A. Sturdza ended in 1898, with a conclusion of an agreement. According to this document, German and Austro-Hungarian armies agreed to accept a number of Romanian officers in both schools and in different military units and headquarters in order to train them. The Convention was in force for ten years. About 200 Romanian officers attended schools, courses and internships in German and Austro-Hungarian armies during this period. Though these officers contributed on some level to the improvement of the state of preparedness of the Romanian army, it continued to have shortcomings. These came out during the Second Balkan War (1913) and especially during the Autumn Campaign in 1916. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]