Western-inclined Turkish military officers opposed to Abdul-Hamid's rule had steadily organized in the form of secret societies within and outside Turkey.

Lahousen became a member of a circle of hand-picked officers opposed to Hitler who ran the intelligence agency.

The coup ultimately failed, with senior military officers opposed to the programme installing the elected Vice President as President, and imprisoning coup leaders.

In November 1948, however, he and two other officers opposed to the accelerating changes installed themselves as the country's leaders, voided the Constitution and outlawed the governing party.

The inquiries appeared to deepen the anxieties of officers opposed to City Hall.

In France, its posterity can mainly be traced to the groups of officers opposed to the decolonization of Indochina and Algeria.

One particularly cohesive group of officers opposed to Ríos was the Guatemalan Military Academy promotion class number 73.

Eventually, Leonard ordered a grand space offensive led by Emerson himself and manned by many officers opposed to Leonard, as a way to get rid of them.

He was aware of the planned coup d'état by junior officers opposed to the surrender, but did nothing to either aid or hinder it.

There is no evidence to suggest that he has been under pressure from hard-line officers opposed to reunification and compromise.