Russia u0027s Nostalgic Generals

Nigeria u0027s Battle of the Generals

No one but the generals knows for sure.

Today, Saleh s support among his top generals is dwindling.

India s strategic rivals, China and Pakistan, began to court the Burmese generals.

Elsewhere, Andrew Field touches on the role of army generals in Zimbabwe politics.

How the generals respond to the ASEAN request will be an important signal of the regime s intentions.

Winston Churchill once said, War is too serious a business for generals.

I asked a top general what he knew of communism at the time.

Pressure must be brought to bear to bring Burma s generals to a negotiating table where real negotiations take place.

Indeed, in Soviet films, Baltic actors were usually cast in the roles of Nazi generals and American spies.

Army generals can also be found as staffers in the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission that oversees elections, and this raises Field's concerns

According to the book, guards from a private security firm and a number of generals in the Angolan Armed Forces were complicit in these abuses.

The minimum that they insist on is reflected in statements by Generals al Mulla, Mamdouh Shahim, Ismail Etman, and others.

The facts on the ground in Burma speak the truth more loudly than all the proclamations from the generals about a free ballot and a democratic transition.

Another development is the increasing tendency of military generals to speak out of turn on strategic issues and undercut diplomatic strategy.

The legal investigations now underway do not mark a showdown between Islamists and secularists, nor are they a campaign to discredit Turkey s generals.

Generals everywhere are mocked for wanting to fight new wars the same way they fought the last one.

The legal investigations now underway do not mark a showdown between Islamists and secularists, nor are they a campaign to discredit Turkey s generals.

It is often half jokingly pointed out that the number of generals and admirals in some European countries (none mentioned, none forgotten) is glaringly disproportionate to the number of fighting troops.

Make no mistake the scourge of Pakistani terrorism emanates more from the country s Scotch whisky sipping generals than from the bead rubbing mullahs.

I m one of these couch potato generals, too, he confessed, saying his videos are based on readings of different geopolitical experts.

Weariness with the war is spreading in the United States, where President Barack Obama finds it difficult to decide about an increase in troops, as demanded by his own generals.

Given the Burmese generals' hard line stance to date, it will likely prove to be necessary for Ban to go to Burma to meet face to face with its leaders.

When we associate with military officials in Tripoli and Misurata, we meet generals who have either studied in Russia or in the Soviet Union.

The president followed up the move in February by firing 17 police generals, including two deputy interior ministers and eight regional police chiefs.

In 2012, a group of Angolan generals filed a criminal defamation complaint against Marques de Morais in Portugal over the book.

How can Pakistan be a normal state if its army and intelligence agency remain outside civilian oversight and decisive power remains with military generals?

Indeed, while the army, the most powerful of the three actors, still officially controls the country, there is little confidence in the generals commitment to democracy.

This must have made the retreat doubly painful for the generals, as ASEAN was previously one of the junta s strongest shields against international pressure.

To bring them to heel, Putin has appointed seven officials (mostly ex generals and KGB men) resembling tsarist Governors General who will serve as his agents.

In 1961, as a group of former French generals revolted in French Algeria, an atomic bomb test in the Sahara went off without a hitch.

In a rare show of state determination, President Mesic suspended and forced into retirement all twelve officers. Several went on to join and lead a new party Croatian Integrity and Prosperity (HIP), organized by Tudjman's eldest son Miroslav, the former chief of the Croatian intelligence service.

The pressure on Burma s generals must also be bilateral and multilateral and should be reinforced by carefully calibrated economic measures, including targeted financial and banking sanctions.

This is nonsense on stilts, though it obviously sounds pleasing to generals in the power ministries, because the only war they know how to wage is with world imperialism.

Several went on to join and lead a new party Croatian Integrity and Prosperity (HIP), organized by Tudjman's eldest son Miroslav, the former chief of the Croatian intelligence service.

In that sense many have interpreted the strategy Trump unveiled on August 21 as a hand washing exercise since the beleaguered President's generals will shoulder the blame if anything goes wrong.

Three of India's Presidents have been Muslim, as have been innumerable cabinet ministers, ambassadors, generals, and Supreme Court justices, not to mention cricket captains.

Now, Morsi, in his effort to force out the prosecutor, will have to avoid opening another front with the Mubarak era security generals, whom he will need to protect state institutions and maintain a minimum level of public security.

Parrying with Tudjman loyalists continued into the spring of this year, with the arrest of Mirko Norac, one of the twelve generals, who was accused of massacring Serb civilians in 1991. Various veterans' organizations staged mass rallies against the treacherous'' government of Mesic and Racan.

Thus, the electorate also made it clear that it no longer wanted the military involved in domestic politics, rejecting the generals warnings that the AKP would lead the country into the darkness of theocratic rule.

The five senior generals who led the coup appointed, directly or indirectly, all 160 members of the Consultative Assembly that drafted the new constitution, and they retained a veto over the final document.

Parrying with Tudjman loyalists continued into the spring of this year, with the arrest of Mirko Norac, one of the twelve generals, who was accused of massacring Serb civilians in 1991.

In November 2011, Marques de Morais filed a criminal complaint in Luanda accusing nine Angolan generals of crimes against humanity and corruption in connection to the diamond mining activities that had taken place in the Lunda region.

On 11 February 2013, to the dissatisfaction of the generals who made the criminal complaint, the Portuguese Prosecution Service chose not to pursue the matter, stating that Marques de Morais intention is clearly not to offend, but to inform.