Many bases are named after generals with tarnished reputations.
Or experienced generals with regard to military issues?
It may be gratifying to attribute Honduras' problems to generals with sunglasses or to rigged elections.
That, in turn, could provide the generals with a handy excuse to reassert their waning influence.
Not, I hope, exclusively from the reserve army of unemployed generals with good Pentagon connections.
Besides, octogenarian party secretaries and generals with serious illness were often allowed to keep their jobs until they died.
Kennedy, overwhelmed the generals with an almost terrifyingly brilliant combination of cost-analysis techniques, computerized strategy, and austere human intelligence.
While the Army quickly swelled with politically appointed colonels and generals with little or no military knowledge, the Navy didn't experience the same expansion.
Mr Rogan ably weaves the thinking and doings of the politicians and generals with their impact on the soldiers and civilian populations.
"I'm worried whether or not we have the right generals with the right mind-set," he said on Fox News Radio.
Mr. Morsi now holds legislative powers in the absence of Parliament and after the forced retirement of generals with which he had previously shared powers.
