The generals aren't happy

Burma s Drug Lord Generals

What do Egypt s Generals Want?

In general, generals run faster than soldiers.

American generals believed they could win an easy victory.

But Sharon s fellow generals were furious at him, as was often the case.

A few more resignations by police officers and the generals will stop giving antihuman orders.

As a result, Myanmar s generals have been able to play one side off against another.

Might it be possible that the generals in Myanmar recognize that they are in a cul de sac?

The military governor and Prime Minister of Thailand, General Prayuth Chan ocha announced the composition of the new cabinet of ministers for the country, in which more than a third of positions are held by either generals or retired generals.

Earlier, generals from a competing service, the FSB, had arrested Cherkesov s deputy for illegal bugging.

The Ukrainian army generals, on the other hand, are none too happy with this online trend.

Aside from the Islamists, two other powerful actors will have their say the Tahrirists and the generals.

Otherwise, Egypt s generals will not be returning to their barracks anytime soon.

Action must also be taken to end the impunity with which the Burmese generals have ruled.

The generals have always placed the institution of the military above all else, including rulers from their own ranks.

People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her why satellite communication took so long.

Resignations have increased ambassadors, ministers, significant media figures, and army generals.

In the midst of the cyclone s devastation, Burma s ruling generals went ahead and held a referendum on a new constitution.

Russian generals insist that conscription must be maintained so that, if necessary, a large scale war can be waged.

Like post Soviet Bourbons, Russia's generals and diplomats have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

So where do Burma s generals hide all the money they keep away from the state s budget?

In 1783, in recognition of his services, the Continental Congress promoted him to brigadier general.

In the current crisis, army generals have told the public that they are reluctant to use force, a position that was not theirs to take.

Generals now hold the positions of Vice President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Minister of the Interior.

If the generals do not want democracy, nor do they want direct military rule à la Augusto Pinochet.

Watanabe tells us that the Committee concluded that, not only high ranking government leaders, general, and admirals should shoulder the blame.

In the early 1990 s, some Turkish generals saw the humiliation of Russian troops in Chechnya as part of a long awaited revenge.

It is the self styled secular generals who have reared the forces of jihad and fathered the Taliban, Lashkar e Taiba, Jalaluddin Haqqani militia, and other groups.

Catholic priests and generals from Venezuela have visited Parima, and they speak highly of our good work and our methods employed in teaching.

Of course, Russia's generals readily believe the most paranoid explanations of American motives (particularly now, when American foreign policy seems so arrogant).

Everywhere, politicians, generals, and even diplomats talk of military strategies and maneuvers, but everywhere something utterly different is needed.

Second, Burma s generals know that they face a stark choice either maintain power or risk imprisonment, exile, and possible death.

Russia can have its Caucasus, and if the generals in Myanmar should go mad, it would become China s and India s problem to sort out.

Even after conviction, the generals were sufficiently strong to exact a termination of the trials and then a pardon from the succeeding president.

Generals Atanase Stanculescu and Mihai Chitac were found guilty of ordering the killings of dozens of innocent people in Timisoara in 1989.

There are no threats of a coup d état, and senior generals, such as Bambang, who studied in American military colleges, returned to Indonesia as convinced democrats.

Although Egypt s generals are by no means as threatened as their Algerian counterparts were in December 1991, they do have enough power to flip the tables.

But if Musharraf were to refuse to go quietly, the generals could promise him a long list of public corruption charges that he must survive without their protection.

And Turkey s generals have intervened in politics several times to defend Kemalism Atatürk s secular ideology of modernization that pushed Islamic Turkey towards European style liberalism.

In March 2013, the generals brought a civil claim before the Lisbon Court demanding compensation of 400,000 for the alleged defamatory statements made in the book.

With Burma s ruling generals preparing to hold elections later this year for the first time since 1990 it is time to try something different.

According to the Court, the Bosnian Serb generals who were guilty of this genocide, the various Mladic s and Kristic s, were neither acting as Serbia s agents nor receiving specific instructions from Belgrade.

And, because both sides have opted for armed struggle, the outcome will be civil war, regardless of what well intentioned European Union foreign ministers decide in Brussels. The Islamists cannot win militarily, just as the generals cannot win politically, which all but ensures the return of dictatorship, significant violence, and a series of humanitarian disasters.

To promote their position, Russia's generals and diplomats adhere to the perception that the country remains besieged by enemies, the US and NATO most prominently. High ranking diplomats understand that their way of thinking requires one sort of diplomacy, and that a foreign policy focused on realizing Russia's economic potential requires quite another.