What's the difference between an adjutant and an adjutant-general?

Adjutant refers to the assistant around the military chief in the army. He has multiple functions of bodyguard, guard, social intercourse and secretary. During the Republic of China, he was mostly a personal confidant of the military chief, but there was a shortage of unofficial officials. In fact, he has a similar role now, but he is called "guard staff".

Based on this private role orientation, only military chiefs above regimental level are qualified to be equipped with adjutants, otherwise it would be a bit funny. As for the rank, there is no uniform standard, just follow the "adaptability".

Generally speaking, the adjutant of a school-level chief officer is a junior officer, the adjutant of a general-level chief officer is a school official, and the adjutant of a particularly senior commander-in-chief is a general. One of the representatives of Marshal Rommel was ordered to give death to Hitler's adjutant, General Burgdorf.

in the hidden rules of the army of the Republic of China, the rank of adjutant is about three and a half levels lower than that of the chief officer he serves. Counting it, the adjutant of the head of the regiment should be a company commander, the adjutant of the brigade commander should be a deputy battalion commander, and the adjutant of the division commander should be a full battalion commander.

After all, the "adjutant" is not the "deputy" of the chief official, but it belongs to a higher level of power, which means that he can often act as a mouthpiece on behalf of the chief official, and the low level is due to the nature of his work.

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In essence, the adjutant is a "senior horse", which gradually evolved from the initial guard role in the army to an assistant officer, from holding the reins to driving the door, from answering the phone to serving tea and water, from carrying a briefcase to conveying orders. It is indeed an indispensable figure around senior officers.

In No War in Peiping, Lieutenant General Li Yuqing, who represented Li Zongren, simply came up with the title of "adjutant general". In fact, this means "guard general" instead of adjutant, except that Li Zongren is "vice president" after all, and if the post setting is the same as that around Chiang Kai-shek, it is a bit that.

Adjutants have been fooling around with senior officials all the year round. If they have the opportunity to go outside, they will have some abilities, and the starting point is quite high. Jiang Dingwen, one of Chiang Kai-shek's eight donkey kong, later joined the army general and commander of the theater, and his earliest important position was lieutenant colonel's adjutant in Marshal Sun Yat-sen's office.

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