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.
Small wonder that, like another admired Army chief of staff, World War II hero Omar Bradley, Shinseki has had a second career as the head of the Veterans Administration.
It questions decisions such as the withdrawal of UN staff from the war zone in September 2008 after the Sri Lankan government warned it could no longer guarantee their safety.
Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the position of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.
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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Thornton played the pompous store walker, who bragged about his military exploits during the war and looked down on junior staff.
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In the small town near the depot, a massive flag in a park across from the local war memorial waved at half-staff.
Mr. Bush has already dispatched his national security adviser and deputy chief of staff to meet with the war mom, but Sheehan says that's not enough.
His starting point is General George Marshall, the Army chief of staff during the Second World War, who culled underperforming generals and promoted the better ones, constructing a ruthlessly efficient fighting force.
Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined progress in the war in Iraq, now in its second week.
Eric Shinseki was pushed into early retirement as army chief of staff, after predicting the Iraq war would take hundreds of thousands of troops to win.
Bush has signaled repeatedly that Powell, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the 1991 Persian Gulf war, would play a major role in his administration.
Everywhere I looked I saw the same hotel staff that we bonded with during the war.
Douglas MacArthur's intelligence staff in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
David Enders, Austin Tice and the staff of McClatchy Newspapers were awarded the war reporting prize for their coverage of the war and its factions.
In the United States, the National Defense University (NDU), the service schools, and the command and staff colleges all teach the Art of War as a part of the core curriculum.
You can easily imagine that happening in the current location's '60s mod interior with leather banquettes, a giant seafood ice boat and vested wait staff that all give off a Cold War-era highbrow vibe.
Earlier Lt Gen Sir Robert Fry, deputy chief of the defence staff in the run-up to the war, said the UK's role in the March 2003 invasion was crucial.
In short, Doug Feith's staff did in the run-up to war precisely what one would expect a policy organization to do: Evaluate and, where appropriate, challenge available intelligence about the threat that might make military operations necessary.
Wiggins served as Army staff sergeant in the Philippines and Japan during World War II.
And there's a tug of war going on between the Joint Chiefs and General Petraeus and his staff.
He was a Soviet-trained pilot who was chief of staff of Egypt's air force during the 1973 Mideast war.
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It is to the great credit of the staff that they carried on teaching in those appalling conditions all through the war and that they were able to enter us for public examinations with good results.
Rwandans repeatedly single out Mr Museveni's chief of staff, Brigadier James Kazini, as the man who plunged Kisangani into war: he dispatched his men to the town when it was already occupied by Rwandans and their rebel friends.
During the course of the Hutton inquiry, Mr Scarlett was criticised for agreeing to make key last minute changes in the dossier because Number 10 chief of staff Jonathan Powell feared it would play into the hands of anti-war groups.
During World War II, he served in the Philippines and Japan and rose to the rank of staff sergeant.
Against them have stood Joe Biden, the vice-president, who is reckoned to favour a narrower focus on counter-terrorism operations, and Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, who is thought to be worried about the impact of the deepening war on Mr Obama's prospects for re-election.
Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a jaw like a stone jetty, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraqi war hero, work together at what is surely the worst job in the armed forces: telling parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed in Iraq.
As Chief of staff (1939-1945), he directed the U.S. army during World War II.
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