Education and Training
Officers of all branches except these of the railroad troops, who were designated for adjutant services as well as candidates for the general staff or for military sciences had to visit the Kriegsakademie. The program of the Kriegsakademie included higher education in tactics, weaponry, fortification theory, army organization, topography and languages, as well as drill, sports, riding and shooting training, completed by courses in strategies, military and generically history, geography, philosophy, mathematics and physics.
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