Turkey's new chief of the general staff, Isik Kosaner, has hardly uttered a peep.
It is the prerogative of the defense minister to select the chief of general staff.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Smith, general staff editor at the National Enquirer, confessed in an undated letter that he seldom leaves the office and thus has no need for a business card.
People close to the General Staff insist that Ashkenazi's determination to scupper Galant's appointment, like Barak's decision to shorten Ashkenazi's tenure, was motivated by personal rivalries and animosity.
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.
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.
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.
General Sergeyev might argue, too, for the general staff to be revamped, and given oversight of Russia's 16 other armed forces, which between them account for at least 600, 000 more men in uniform.
However, some units and organizations have been turning to entertainment games for training, such as the Command and General Staff College using strategy games like Decisive Action (which you can buy and play at home).
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