The chief of the general staff should be answerable to the defence minister, not the other way round.
Turkey's new chief of the general staff, Isik Kosaner, has hardly uttered a peep.
This was the fault of the General Staff that sent those forces into battles undermanned.
It is the prerogative of the defense minister to select the chief of general staff.
Moreover, for years that military aid has been a corrupting force on Israel's general staff.
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Showing no emotion, they stood stiffly at attention before IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.
Yet the chief of the general staff, General Ilker Basbug, broadly supports the government's softer Kurdish policy.
The general staff became the model for modern military organizations, and was later adopted by businesses and government.
This week a former chief of general staff, Ilker Basbug, was called in for interrogation over the affair.
To support this view, on Friday Haaretz's Aluf Benn wrote that outgoing IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.
General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff, said "thought and imagination" had gone into the training facility.
In the early nineteenth century the Prussian military with guidance from strategists Karl von Clausewitz established a military general staff.
Britain's former Chief of the General Staff General Sir Michael Walker will take over the position on Friday, May 2.
Mr Ben-Eliezer is understood to have ordered members of the general staff to stop giving interviews for the time being.
Members of the IDF General Staff have recommended renewing negotiations with Syria regarding an Israeli surrender of the Golan Heights.
Happily, although the chief of the general staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, harrumphed, he refused publicly to disavow Mr Erdogan's potential candidacy.
On the other hand, "The General Staff, " set to begin shooting next year, will be based on eyewitness accounts, Salmanian said.
Nowadays, even Turkey's chief of the general staff, Ilker Basbug, admits that military might alone will not fix Turkey's Kurdish problem.
Excerpts include details of two separate planned coups concocted in 2004 that were quashed by the then chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok.
General Andrei Nikolaev, the border guards' head, could be won over by asking him to be chief of the new-look general staff.
Also there was the Chief of the General Staff, Sir Peter Wall.
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The IDF's decision to have television crews film Israeli soldiers fighting in mock Syrian villages this week, like Chief of General Staff Lt.
The president does indeed have sweeping powers not just of veto but to choose judges, university heads and the chief of the general staff.
As the threats against Israel mount from all directions, the job of the IDF Chief of General Staff is becoming more challenging by the day.
The General Staff of course, was not alone in its incompetence.
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.
Three division commanders and the OC Northern Command were removed from their posts for their normative and operational failures and then-chief of General Staff Lt.
He suffered from a poisonously hostile media environment and faced a powerful political opposition supported by the IDF's politicized General Staff and the Clinton administration.
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