STAFF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS. Mili tary training schools for officers candidates for staff appointments. To prepare officers for duty on the staff of an army special college, or schools have been instituted by all the leading military nations of the world. (See MILITARY EDUCATION.) In the United States there is the General Service and Staff College at Fort Leaven worth, Kan., to which officers are ordered for their technical and professional instruction, and students showing marked proficiency in their studies are considered to be eligible for staff or other duties for which they are best fitted. In England officers desirous of qualifying for staff appointment must have had five years' service in the army, undergo the two years' course at the Staff College at Sandhurst, and serve at least four months at Aldershot in some arm of the service other than the one to which they belong. The rule in Germany is to select officers
for the general staff from among the graduates of the military colleges having the best qualifi cations and the highest percentages in examina tion. The training is received at Berlin and Munich. In France staff officers are educated at the Higher War School at Paris, which was tirst organized as a tall college at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and reorganized in 1875 as the permanent college for general staff can didates. Austria-Hungary sets apart the Kriegs schule at Vienna for instruction in staff work. The Italian general staff school is at Milan, where about 24 officers graduate each year. The Saint Nicholas Academy at Saint Petersburg is the staff school of Russia, entrance to which is competitive to all officers of three years' service and upward. See STAFF.