There is a new generation of commanders still fighting in the mountains who may prove even more angry, bitter and desperate than their predecessors.
— Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Monday urged the next generation of commanders to "tell blunt truths" to their military and civilian leaders — but he also cautioned them to air their "respectful dissent" only through official channels.
In 2000, though, top Navy brass recognized that their world was changing radically and that they'd need new ways to train the next generation of commanders, captains and admirals.
At the time of his appointment last August, the choice of Sisi, 58, seemed to suit both Mursi and the younger generation of army commanders seeking promotion after years under older generals, like 78-year-old Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's defence minister for two decades.
True, some senior Taliban leaders are playing along — but this is not so much because they fear defeat at the hands of the Americans, but because they worry that their new generation of midlevel commanders is getting out of control.
The government says that new reality is found across the country and is prompting a new generation of FARC commanders — the youngest of whom are in their late 50s — to engage Santos.
Mr. Rumsfeld also contends that organizational changes in the Pentagon, like the selection of a new generation of regional commanders and service chiefs, will do more to change the military than arms programs or budgets.
Under this audacious system, a generation of brilliant young commanders emerged, men like James Gavin, an innovator in airborne warfare who became the Army's youngest three-star general.
In addition, it is unclear how much control older Taliban political leaders have over a new generation of younger military commanders, most of whom are not even on the United Nations blacklist.
Mr. Kennedy placed Mr. McCarthy, 48, among a generation of New York's police commanders who took leadership positions in the mid-1990s under William J. Bratton, the police commissioner who introduced the Compstat crime tracking system and gets much of the credit for New York's declining crime rates.
But by the early 1880s, this generation (including commanders such as the Duke of Caxias, the Count of Porto Alegre, and the Marquis of Erval) had died, were retired, or no longer exercised direct command.
