But there was no discussion of the wisdom of a general war against drugs in Latin America.
Like a first world war general you compound it by thinking that consigning yet more troops' lives will solve the problem.
With only a few exceptions, those who have been elected have either held high public office as a U.S. Senator, Governor, or Vice President, or been a famous war general.
Another time a descendant of a high ranking Revolutionary War general sent me their family treasure, also a letter from General Washington, only to find out that someone a century earlier had copied the original onto laid paper, the very kind of paper that Washington had used (shown below).
The glaring exception was the trial of Japanese General Yamashita after World War II.
As for the future, Clark doesn't have to follow in the footsteps of another famous general -- World War II's Gen.
Mr Darling rejected the calls to separate retail and investment banking, likening them to the strategies of a "general fighting the last war".
But Mr Djukanovic says he fears that the West will give up on Montenegro, and on the Balkans in general, once the war is over.
Gen Dan Halutz as Chief of General Staff after the war, almost all the commanders who displayed such incompetence last summer remain in their positions.
In the short term, though, Mr Sanader will have to resolve the problem of Ante Gotovina, a Croatian general indicted by the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.
The U.S. announced the moratorium in 1992, in the general euphoria over the Cold War's end.
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Five months and a war later, General Shinseki's guess seems more prescient than their disparagements.
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His poster boy for the terrible early period of the Iraq war is Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, whom he accurately portrays as a decent man but an incompetent commander.
The general feeling is not worry or war but that maybe now the two Koreas can be reunited.
Like the general, he had a dubious war record in Bosnia and Croatia, but he probably curbed Mr Milosevic's wilder ambitions.
But the general isn't going to war -- his mission is peace.
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In addition, he brought in the Open University, kept Britain out of the Vietnam War and won four general elections between 1964 and 74.
Croatia has also been promised it can begin negotiations as soon as it locates fugitive General Ante Gotovina, indicted for war crimes by the international criminal tribunal in The Hague.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, therefore, Schwarzkopf's commander, said the general's leadership during the war inspired the nation.
Analysts believe this could be the beginning of a series of general strikes, with Jamaat-e-Islami determined to show its opposition the war crimes trials and the BNP opposition also threatening to call general strikes over a dispute on restoring the country's caretaker administration for parliamentary polls.
Previously, it had insisted that Serbia must first arrest General Ratko Mladic, indicted by the war-crimes tribunal.
When the war started I found the general feeling of "Let's go and get them" really frightening.
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And when the Iraqis were driven out of their conquered territory, the general was in favour of ending the war immediately.
McCaffrey, who resigned Thursday as a four-star Army general, added that the term "war on drugs" is inadequate to describe his new responsibility.
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Instead of building up their war chests to fight a general election every four or five years, the parties now raid them all the time.
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Before going to war (rising to brigadier general) he had worked for the American government as a lawyer, an enthusiastic supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
But even pleas from the world's most powerful man may not halt the path to war, in part because General Musharraf may not do enough to satisfy India.
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