In 2000, former Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki first proposed the FCS project in an attempt to make the Army more deployable, networked, jointly synchronized and survivable.
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The government has created the post of deputy chief of army staff for General Muzaffar Usmani, a close confidant of General Musharraf's.
Yugoslavia's chief of army staff, General Dragoljub Ojdanic, has accused the federal government and its prime minister, Momir Bulatovic, a Milosevic loyalist who comes from Montenegro, of leaving the army penniless.
Although some tensions may develop between the military and a new civilian government over such issues, the highly professional Chief of Army Staff, General Kayani, is likely to respect civilian rule in all circumstances short of widespread anarchy.
The new army chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, was chosen by Musharraf and the two men are very close.
The retiring army chief of staff, General Hartono, who is close to Tutut, was made minister of information, perhaps a preparation for greater things.
On 24 November 1998, Mr Milosevic appointed Mr Ojdanic as his army's chief of general staff, after sacking Momcilo Perisic over disagreements regarding the policy towards Kosovo.
So serious a threat are such murders "inside the wire" deemed to be that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Martin Dempsey, went to Afghanistan last week to assess what is being done to prevent them in the future.
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He rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general and the army's chief of staff in 1970 during the military regime of President General Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio.
General Hartono, the outgoing army chief of staff, is a friend of Tutut's, and might be trusted to look after the family interests.
On the day of the Aziz-Singh talks, New Delhi said it had tapes of telephone conversations between Pakistan army chief Pervez Musharraf and his chief of general staff Lt.
His starting point is General George Marshall, the Army chief of staff during the Second World War, who culled underperforming generals and promoted the better ones, constructing a ruthlessly efficient fighting force.
Our guests are General Jack Keane, former Army vice chief of staff.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani army helicopter crashed Wednesday in the country's tribal region, killing a senior general and seven members of his staff -- including two other generals -- an army spokesman told CNN.
This makes a recent speech by General Hilmi Ozkok, the army's chief of staff, interesting and, in some respects, troubling.
Our guests are General Jack Keane, a former Army vice chief of staff, and he was in Iraq during the U.S. invasion.
The author of that letter, also written to Senator McCain, is retired Army General John Vessey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff more than 20 years ago.
Today we're talking with General Jack Keane, a retired lieutenant general, former vice chief of staff of the Army.
General Nash, you mentioned General Schoomaker, the chief of staff of the Army, who quite dramatically testified before Congress that his force was in deep trouble.
Mr. NASH: Well General Schoomaker, the chief of staff of the Army, estimated the other day, before a panel examining this question, that he could recruit an additional 6, 000 or so, maybe 7, 000 a year.
According to the Washington Times, the general, who is the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for personnel and a top member of the Pentagon repeal review, described critics as "racists and bigots" who need to get out if they can't get with the program.
Educated at Harvard both the college and the law school he had volunteered for the army in 1941 and ended the war on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur. (His wartime experience may explain why he, like other old soldiers, was always so reluctant to resort to force.) Moreover, his intellectual interests history and the law both drew him to Europe, and Britain in particular.
The most recent victim of this purge is General Momcilo Perisic, dismissed as the Yugoslav army's chief of staff.
"No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow, " said the spokesman for the General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army (KPA).
Some hawkish generals were retired, for all their kicks and screams, by the chief of the general staff, General Hilmi Ozkok, a liberal by Turkish army standards, and one who does not share many generals' distaste for Mr Erdogan over his Islamist past.
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Lieutenant General JACK KEANE (Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army): It's great to be back, thank you.
In June, 2010, President Hamid Karzai removed General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi from his post as chief of staff of the Afghan Army, and transferred him to the Ministry of Interior.
General PETER PACE (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Army): There's no doubt in my mind that the dialogue here in Washington strengthens our democracy.
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, was also talking to the Egyptian army chief, Lieutenant General Sami Enan, who had been at the Pentagon only in late January for discussions about combined training.
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