We wanted no part of your military 'advice' or 'observers' in the first place.

"You think anybody will ask me for military advice?"

But some say this was not the first time Holmes gave military advice to a President.

A. No, I asked specifically whether he was engaged in giving military advice.

He then arranged for the puppet government to ask Tokyo to supply "military advice".

Potemkin also rose in political stature, particularly on the strength of his military advice.

I brought him here to give me military advice.

I know that the military advice will be as few as possible.

However, he does not consider it his role to argue, but rather to provide clear military advice, the officials said.

However, there is evidence that he instead asked for their military advice, and later hired them as mercenaries.