"He knew all the names of the generals and battles, from the Revolutionary War and Bunker Hill, and all that, " Mr. Berling said.
Mr Mubarak appointed all of the generals of the Supreme Military Council, making many activists wary of their loyalties and commitment to reform.
The Iraq war has become a defining experience for a generation of officers, including all of the top generals in the Pentagon.
But after the court decisions, an Egyptian general said on television that the generals had assumed all legislative powers, and would begin appointing a committee to draft the country's new constitution on Friday.
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" "Bradley professed that 'the one quality all great generals had in common was their understanding.
Perhaps that is what the generals have been planning all along.
U. The generals believe in one thing above all--that Turkey's future lies in a westward direction.
But last month Mr. Morsi confounded all expectations by prying full executive authority back from the generals.
As Australia announced on April 17th that it would withdraw almost all its troops by the end of 2013, the generals will this summer turn their attention away from the Taliban heartlands in Kandahar and Helmand.
He changed out all the key players, from Secretary Rumsfeld, two generals and also one ambassador, and he put in play a new strategy, which I think the fact that it surrounds Baghdad as the center of that strategy sort of indicates that we've been there before.
Some observers have wondered whether the two generals were guilty of an error of judgement in getting involved in the case at all.
McMasters' well-known book, Dereliction of Duty, which came out in the '90s, and all of today's Army generals will have read - or are supposed to read - and that's a book that is very critical of the Vietnam-era generals for allowing the country to slip into the Vietnam War without speaking out.
Generals favour a larger Army, especially one with all the latest high-technology equipment.
And CNN learned that the Pentagon has called a Tuesday meeting of all of its "TV generals, " retired generals who serve as analysts for television and newspapers and get regular Pentagon briefings.
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Professional men, merchants, lawyers, scientists and revolutionaries all sought to wrest the business of inter-state relations away from monarchs, despots, generals and a diplomatic corps heaving with aristocrats, and onto a more rational, technocratic footing.
Turkey, in particular, has to show that it is a full democracy, with its generals in their proper, subordinate place and all its citizens accorded decent treatment under the law (see survey).
Others hope that Mr Mugabe, now 87 and in failing health, might, along with his generals, be persuaded to retire peacefully if all were guaranteed immunity from prosecution, the removal of targeted sanctions by the West, and the retention of their riches.
What Mr Cohen's thumbnail sketches also confirm is that leaders at one remove from the military establishment are often quicker than generals at sensing when a historic sea-change has occurred, rendering useless all the conventional wisdom (including military wisdom) of years past.
Nigerian generals reject such criticism and note that they send more peacekeepers to the United Nations than all but four other countries.
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Like the apocryphal Roman slave tasked to walk behind Rome's conquering generals and whisper, "All glory is fleeting, " Mariano Rivera takes it upon himself to remind the Yankees' developing young pitchers that they are always a hairsbreadth away from failure.
In time there would be economic dividends, but long before that the mere expression of willingness to treat the application seriously would have helped all those Turks who are trying to promote democracy, to settle the Kurdish problem and to reduce the influence of the generals.
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