The reformed Army had a General Staff to prepare papers and coordinate forces across the Empire. An Army Council supplied senior officers to direct and organize the service. Politicians and the distance between imperial forces still frustrated this work, so a formal organization did not remove every practical obstacle. Even with those limits, the assessment places the Army in a much stronger position than in the 1890s. Earlier wars had failed to force comparable institutional change.
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A General Staff still faced imperial distance and political obstacles
Formal staff work improved Army coordination, though politicians and the geography of the Empire continued to obstruct it.