STAFF OFFICERS TRAINING ABROAD (1878-1940).

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]