top brass
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The report, released in May 2023, found that the Navy's top brass had "let our standards slip - and in doing so we let our people down."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Ukraine's ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov was just six months in the role before his ambitious drive to reform the military led to unreconciliable clashes with the country's top brass.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
John Nagl, who strongly felt that the Army’s top brass were too hidebound to the old ways of warfighting—large-scale tank-and-infantry battles—and were blocking the promotions of officers who were fighting counterinsurgency battles in the field.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
BP has previous experience when it comes to spats with its top brass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Before long, Admiral Nimitz and his generals were meeting in that tent to discuss battle plans while we Navajo code talkers waited in the corner, right there next to the top brass.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
