He learned he could return to Afghanistan as an adviser to the Afghan army and pitched it to his wife as a good career move.
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The most senior of these is Prem Tinsulanonda, chief adviser to King Bhumibol and a former army commander and prime minister in the 1980s.
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Today, Chile's is the most modern and best-equipped army in Latin America, says Armen Kouyoumdjian, an adviser to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Mr Cameron also confirmed that former head of the Army General Sir Richard Dannatt would become a Tory defence adviser and may serve in a future Tory government.
But Rumsfeld's top adviser, Stephen Cambone, has bluntly warned the Army that it will lose two or more divisions under the new budget.
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Former head of the Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt is to become a defence adviser to the Conservatives in the House of Lords.
India's national-security adviser, Brajesh Mishra, wonders aloud whether Mr Sharif knew what the army was planning.
Still, some didn't understand why he enlisted in the Army, especially after attending Ohio State University and beginning a career as a financial adviser.
He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command, whose jurisdiction includes Iraq, the director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs.
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But now there is a whole new army of brokers that will be fiduciaries too, except unlike an objective fee-only adviser these brokers will still be tempted by the bribe of a big fat commission.
He then worked as an adviser to Biljana Plavsic, the former president of Republika Srpska, before retiring from the army in 1997.
The coup was the last chance for the army's royalist old guard, led by General Prem Tinsulanonda, the king's chief adviser, to remove Mr Thaksin before he replaced them with his own cronies.
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