My edit is based on Field Manuals and my experience (MOS 96D retired)in both assignment and interaction with Combined, Joint, Corps, Division, Brigade and Battalion staffs. A practitioner's input will only add a functional, empirical dimension to an open-sourced article. It also helps to remove irrelevant details. Radical man 7 18:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
The article name should be changed to "military staff" as the original name only applies to the Army and the staffs that only apply to general's. The edit reworks the content to include all military staffs at all levels.Radical man 7 13:26, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
The sources do not address the military staff in general and do not describe the functional aspect or the actual organization of military staffs, nor they follow the official training doctrine used by the armed services e.g. Army FM series. The article in it's original form only speculates on the basis of recent articles that in turn do not cite actual official doctrine, in other words, its sloppy research.Radical man 7 13:34, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
This needs to include something about British army G.S.O.s. Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 22:20, 31 May 2007 (UTC)