In the aftermath of the coup, he rose quickly through military ranks, becoming brigadier-general and, by 1993, army chief.
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Government leaders and military leaders closed ranks around Maduro on Monday in a series of television appearances to defend the official vote count and accuse Capriles of trying to foment violence.
An American senior coalition official said the move effectively disbands the Army, the Republican Guard and the Revolutionary Command Council, among others, and cancels any military or other ranks conferred by the previous regime.
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He graduated from the national military academy in 1944 and rapidly climbed the ranks of the military, becoming brigadier-general in 1971.
Habibie delivered a closed-door speech to senior military staff in which he made it clear that the next president does not have to come from the ranks of the military.
The event is free and open to all military spouses - all ranks, active duty, retired, Reserve and National Guard.
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In recent years as defense spending began leveling off, Pentagon policymakers canceled or cut back dozens of weapons systems, but they did little to reduce the bloated ranks of military and civilian personnel (not to mention contractors).
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Fearing insubordination in the ranks of its military and Revolutionary Guards, in 2009 the regime reportedly brought Hezbollah operatives to Iran to kill anti-regime demonstrators.
From my husband right on down through the ranks of this military, from those powerful CEOs to all of the teachers, clergy, and neighbors that you deal with every single day.
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As this occurs, instability among the party ranks and within the military will inevitably develop, creating a shaky foundation through which a collapse of the government is more likely.
While SCAF has tried to talk the talk of the new era, all of its members rose through the ranks of the Egyptian military with the blessings of Hosni Mubarak.
Far from being a force for social change, the military enlists far more people from the ranks of the poor because the poor often have no better alternatives.
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The resignation of Mr. Carrizales seems to have something to do with the fact that Cuban military officers have been promoted in the ranks of the Venezuelan national Armed Forces.
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In American military mythology Custer's last stand ranks alongside the Battle of the Alamo, an attack by Mexican forces on a compound in Texas, which left all the defenders dead.
He served in Vietnam as a military adviser and worked his way up the ranks throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Despite being one of just a few women in the Rio de Janeiro military police, she has risen through the ranks, commanding more than 100 male officers.
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According to the paper, Washington aims to form a more robust plan to bring down Bashar al-Assad by using military force, while counteracting religious extremists within the ranks of his opponents.
With the approach this autumn of sweeping leadership changes in China's civilian and military leadership, it is not surprising that General Liang has turned even more shy than usual (it took the IISS ten years to secure attendance by a Chinese defence minister, even though the office ranks relatively low in China's military hierarchy compared with other countries).
Among the 50 states, Ohio ranks number-two as a supplier to military powerhouse Boeing, providing billions of dollars in goods and services every year.
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Future leaders will be drawn from the ranks of middle-aged provincial party secretaries and rising military officers, party insiders say.
On the other hand, China ranks behind both the U.S. and Russia in military expenditures.
The statistics highlight the dismal results that military leaders have achieved in their drive to change the culture within the ranks, even as the services redoubled efforts to launch new programs to assist the victims, encourage reporting and increase commanders' vigilance.
Their ranks were bolstered by soldiers and officers who defected from the Syrian military and security forces.
Hours before the accusations came to light, military leaders had told a Senate committee they would make fighting sexual assault in their ranks a top priority.
Mubarak came to power in 1981, after then-President Anwar Sadat died in a hail of gunfire at a military parade -- killed by Islamic militants from within the army's own ranks after he took the dramatic step of making peace with Israel.
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Law enforcement officers and military personnel made up most of the first recruits to join the agency's replenished ranks in October 2001, said Jamie Smith, a former federal air marshal instructor and current CEO of SCG International, a global security firm.
He broke party ranks to support President Bush over waging war against Iraq and he argued forcefully for military intervention in the Bosnia conflict.
My father entered the Army in the enlisted ranks and, twenty years later, retired as a Major, so he had a very successful military career.
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.
Far from these undulating slopes, from where Mr Assad's father, Hafez, rose through army and Baath party ranks to become president in Damascus in 1971, Alawites now hold key positions in the government and the military.
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