Most military professionals today would agree that no amount of tactical success can make up for a failure to plan strategically. Some countries, however, have overlooked this fact. Hans Delbruck, a noted German military historian and strategist, concluded that senior German planners failed to think and plan s rategically during World War I. Incredibly, German planners again neglected strategic planning in World War II. Delbruck's thesis raises some interesting questions: Was there actually a general lack of strategic level thinking in the German officer corps? If this was true, was the failure to think and plan on the strategic level of war due to a lack of officer professional education? This SRP concludes that the German officer corps did not have a proper appreciation or education for the strategic level of war.