Under the thorough collaboration of Jerome Bonaparte and Saint Arnaud, the French General Staff is advancing at an unprecedented speed, and the results are visibly apparent.
Mid-to-lower level military officers are rapidly filling the positions in army, division, brigade, and regiment staff departments as analysts, under the selection of the Ministry of War. The local staff departments are constrained by dual regulations from the war zone commander and the General Staff.
The war zone commanders are similarly constrained by the decentralization of the military staff departments. Originally akin to vassal emperors, the local commanders have no choice but to accept the military staff departments. Local armies are no longer the voice of a single commander but are moving toward relatively democratized power structures.
Of course, the military's nature as a component of the violent apparatus remains unchanged.
