After four days of discussions among the military leaders of the Allied Forces, the overall strategic direction for the campaign against France was finally determined.
Next, the staff officers of various countries began to formulate specific operational deployments.
Of course, the central focus was mainly on the General Staffs of Prussia and Austria—Austria, like Prussia, had modeled its General Staff after France's last year but as a subordinate department of the Royal Military Commission—England did not yet have a General Staff structure, so it allowed Prussia and Austria to make the arrangements.
The chief commanders of England and Prussia stepped out of the conference hall side by side, nodding politely to each other, and then went their separate ways.
