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.
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.
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.
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.
Excerpts include details of two separate planned coups concocted in 2004 that were quashed by the then chief of the general staff, Hilmi Ozkok.
Also there was the Chief of the General Staff, Sir Peter Wall.
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The president does indeed have sweeping powers not just of veto but to choose judges, university heads and the chief of the general staff.
The General Staff of course, was not alone in its incompetence.
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.
Like the General Staff, the government too remains in power.
At Sunday's ceremony, the members of the General Staff looked visibly ashamed as the stories of the heroism of the forces they sent into misguided battles were recounted.
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.
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.
The paper, whose news coverage remains spotty, made its biggest splash so far when it recently published a document detailing alleged plans by the general staff to mobilise public opinion against the government and its sympathisers.
"No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow, " said the spokesman for the General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army (KPA).
One big newspaper said that Mr Yeltsin had told Mr Putin to do this and to dismiss both the chief of the general staff, General Anatoly Kvashnin, and the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov.
It plans to fund a movie entitled "The General Staff, " about 20 American hostages who were handed over to the United States by Iranian revolutionaries, according to a report last week by Mehr News, the official Iranian agency.
Some are even thinking of a change to the constitution written after the military coup of 1980, which gives the general staff the ability to influence the government through a National Security Council that contains both generals and ministers.
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