Just a standard-issue military bureaucrat trying to appear uncompromising and totally in control.

After August 25, 1944, only 1,400 Carabinieri remained employed as either service workers or military bureaucrats.

It is easy to despise the military bureaucrats in hindsight, but how should they have known how to buy an airplane?

The military bureaucrats in War Department headquarters were probably as glad to see him gone as he was to go.

Autonomous military bureaucrats become revolutionaries only if they develop political cohesion.

Autonomous military bureaucrats can stage a successful revolution from above only when contradictions in the international constellation of power can be exploited to increase national autonomy.

Dissident military bureaucrats must have a provincial base of power separate from the central government to stage a revolution from above.

Mention the word "notification" and even the most bloodless military bureaucrat turns into a human being.

Deepening the crisis, Gilani later sacked the country's top military bureaucrat for unspecified "gross misconduct and illegal action".

In the past, Thailand's powerful military and senior bureaucrats were also said to have been involved in the final choice of the country's leader.