A cable from Kuwait City highlights American interest in an assertion from the Kuwait armed forces deputy chief of staff (DCOS), Lieutenant-General Ahmed Khalid al-Sabah, about Iranian activity in the region.
"The current rule for members of the armed forces, reporters on the Lieutenant Kelly Flinn story were told, is, Go ahead and fall in love, but watch out if one of you happens to be married.
Kabila was able to name the armed forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Liwanga Mata, who previously served as navy chief of staff under Laurent Kabila.
Her son (also named Georg) served two years in the German armed forces -- he was a lieutenant in the air force reserves -- and worked within Schaeffler Group from 1990 to 1996.
His brothers dentists by profession, like their father also enlisted in the armed forces, John as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Australian Navy and Lindsay as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps.
Earlier this year the US leaked telephone intercepts in which Mr Milosevic's armed forces chief of staff and main lieutenant in Kosovo, Nikola Sainovic - one of the indictees - was quoted as ordering Serb security forces to 'go in heavy' in the village of Recak, where 41 ethnic Albanian villagers were massacred in January.
Reckless elements within the Argentinian armed forces – including a "dirty war" veteran called Lieutenant Alfredo Astiz – had jumped the gun and invaded too soon in the storm season.
Abiy served as a lieutenant colonel in the armed forces and, in 2007, created the Information Network Security Agency, which has been criticized by activists for its surveillance activities inside and outside the country.
He was even given the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Bolivian armed forces, and was then able to move around with total impunity.
The defence minister, Harjit Sajjan, a decorated lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian armed forces, was the first Sikh Canadian to command an army regiment and served in Bosnia and Afghanistan, where he was deployed on three tours of duty.
The fears of the normally silent Pakistan armed forces were reflected this weekend in an extraordinary article by Lieutenant General Shahid Aziz, who served as the chief of general staff under Zardari's predecessor, Pervez Musharraf.
