The government has created the post of deputy chief of army staff for General Muzaffar Usmani, a close confidant of General Musharraf's.
Pasha's position atop the ISI is considered valuable to the U.S., the official said, because of his close connection to chief of army staff, Gen.
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.
They include Theophilus Danjuma, who was once chief of army staff and is now expected to be defence minister, Bola Ige (a former state governor), Adamu Ciroma (an ex-governor of the Central Bank) and Jerry Gana (a former information minister).
Musharraf makes no secret of wanting to remain president while retaining the hugely powerful position of army chief of staff.
Some memos he wrote caught the eye of Army Chief of Staff (and VMI alumnus) George Marshall, who brought him on staff.
Earlier this month, Rumsfeld offered Franks, 57, the post of Army chief of staff -- the highest job in the Army.
CNN: Franks turned down the Army's top job earlier this month.
The term of the current Army chief of staff, Gen.
CNN: Franks turned down the Army's top job earlier this month.
From Bangkok, which he is visiting, the minister of agriculture and former army chief of staff, Rafael Eitan, urged Mr Netanyahu to step up settlement-building as his response to the bombing.
The news followed the removal, two days earlier, of Ri Yong Ho from his post as army chief of staff.
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It helps explain his surprisingly strong partnership with Ehud Barak, the leader of the Labour Party (and a former army chief of staff and prime minister), trusted as the only man able to handle the big security issues.
Yousef Mangoush, the army chief of staff, one of few commanders respected by both the national army and the national shield, holds a similarly robust view.
Floyd Spence and Ben Gilman (the chairmen, respectively, of the House National Security and International Relations Committees), former Army Chief of Staff Gen.
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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In 1999, as he was flying to Karachi from a trip to Sri Lanka, the civilian government of then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif fearful of Mr. Musharraf's political ambitions fired him from the army chief of staff job and ordered air-traffic controllers to ban his plane from landing.
This follows the lines of Mr Mofaz's initial policy in the West Bank, when he was army chief of staff.
If tone is set at the top, recall that the Army chief of staff at the time said the most tragic result of Fort Hood would be if it interfered with the Army's diversity program.
The army chief of staff came out against the law, and the president duly vetoed it.
The new army chief of staff, who is expected to be promoted to commander-in-chief next year.
The new army chief of staff, Abdul Fattah Younis, was Col Gaddafi's interior minister until he defected.
Army Chief of Staff George Marshall told MacArthur he wanted Wainwright recommended for the Medal of Honor.
He was overthrown along with then-Army Chief of Staff Jose Amora Induta in a mutiny in April 2010.
George Casey, who would become Army chief of staff, the Pentagon said Friday.
In his second term in office, in 1997-1999, Mr. Sharif, however, fell out with the then-army chief of staff, Gen.
Mr. Musharraf, who was an army chief of staff when he seized power in a 1999 coup, ruled until 2008.
The new army chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, was chosen by Musharraf and the two men are very close.
Shaul Mofaz, a former defence minister, and Moshe Yaalon, a minister and former army chief of staff, cancelled visits rather than risk arrest.
General Hartono, the outgoing army chief of staff, is a friend of Tutut's, and might be trusted to look after the family interests.
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