Turkey's new chief of the general staff, Isik Kosaner, has hardly uttered a peep.
Yet the chief of the general staff, General Ilker Basbug, broadly supports the government's softer Kurdish policy.
General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, said "thought and imagination" had gone into the training facility.
Britain's former Chief of the General Staff General Sir Michael Walker will take over the position on Friday, May 2.
Happily, although the chief of the general staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, harrumphed, he refused publicly to disavow Mr Erdogan's potential candidacy.
Nowadays, even Turkey's chief of the general staff, Ilker Basbug, admits that military might alone will not fix Turkey's Kurdish problem.
Also there was the Chief of the General Staff, Sir Peter Wall.
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This week General Ilker Basbug, the chief of the general staff, admitted that the raids on the Special Forces Command were carried out within the law.
Putin also met over the weekend with the chief of the general staff, Anatoly Kvashnin, and Viktor Komogorov, deputy director of the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB.
And on March 26th Turkey's chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok, announced that he wanted Turkish troops to enter northern Iraq only in full co-ordination with the Americans.
On the other side of the debate, however, some ardently secular-minded writers have accused General Hilmi Ozkok, the unusually mild-mannered chief of the general staff, of being too soft on the government.
Among the 96 people who died were the chief of the Polish general staff, the head of the central bank, the director of the Institute of National Remembrance (which investigates and documents crimes such as Katyn) and many other of the country's top public figures.
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It is the prerogative of the defense minister to select the chief of general staff.
Perhaps even more telling was a declaration by General Hilmi Ozkok, the chief of Turkey's general staff, that Cyprus was a matter for the politicians.
David Cameron said that the Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards was examining ideas for military co-operation with African countries.
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.
Yet Mr Erdogan has rushed to the defence of the current chief of general staff, Necdet Ozel, thanking him for his pledge to pay compensation to the families of the Sirnak victims.
Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir David Richards, said ministers had not taken into account reduced force sizes.
General Andrei Nikolaev, the border guards' head, could be won over by asking him to be chief of the new-look general staff.
The British and Indian foreign ministers discussed this week's visit to Pakistan by the British Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Charles Guthrie, which has caused some disquiet in India.
It was well known that in 1973-74, as Richard Nixon crumbled under the weight of Watergate, General Haig, then chief of staff in succession to the disgraced H.
The Serbian Chief of Staff, General Zivota Panic, reportedly was in Baghdad recently meeting with the Iraqi defense minister.
The new army chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, was chosen by Musharraf and the two men are very close.
The chief of staff, General Gerardo Wolburg Redondo, said he would need permission to speak to me.
Gen Dan Halutz as Chief of General Staff after the war, almost all the commanders who displayed such incompetence last summer remain in their positions.
Perhaps the most important of all was the appointment in October of Lieut-General Agus Widjoyo as chief of staff for territorial affairs.
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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The retiring army chief of staff, General Hartono, who is close to Tutut, was made minister of information, perhaps a preparation for greater things.
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