According to a survey conducted by an international organization in 2008, roughly seventy per cent of the colonels and generals in the Afghan Army appeared to be loyal to Khan.

NEWYORKER: After America

The role of the British Army in the First World War and the competence or otherwise of her generals continues to be a subject of debate.

UNESCO: 2012 UK Memory of the World Register

In the 1990s, his reporting angered the army generals who once controlled so much of Turkey, and he says they sought to punish him for his disobedience.

CNN: Respected Turkish journalist dies

McMasters' well-known book, Dereliction of Duty, which came out in the '90s, and all of today's Army generals will have read - or are supposed to read - and that's a book that is very critical of the Vietnam-era generals for allowing the country to slip into the Vietnam War without speaking out.

NPR: Playing the Blame Game on Iraq

Top Turkish army generals did not attend an important bilateral conference in the United States last year, following American criticism of Turkey's cross-border military offensive against Kurdish PKK rebels in Northern Iraq.

CNN: Analysis: Does Obama diplomacy work?

In an earlier case in which several army generals were questioned, they claimed, according to the prosecution lawyer, not to remember even the most simple facts.

ECONOMIST: Breaking the general��s spell

Until Vicente Fox defeated the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in 2000, police chiefs and even army generals were routinely paid off by drug traffickers.

ECONOMIST: The police, and the gangsters, are modernising

Unlike in Turkey, however, where the army has traditionally championed Ataturk's uncompromising secularism, Egypt's generals do not reveal their political inclinations.

ECONOMIST: Change is bound to come, but when?