They are also pressing their political superiors to keep certain missiles and missile silos.

But their political superiors must now extricate themselves from a strategy that has degenerated from humanitarian relief into a pointless test of military staying power.

She did her job exactly as she had under the old regime-far better than most-and let her political superiors worry about policy.

Staff members feel that they have no backing from their political superiors.

Whether it's on her part or on the part of her political superiors doesn't really matter, either, in this instance.

Consequently, a tendency has been observed for high-level civil servants to follow the political superiors' directives rigidly.

Intelligence officers were regularly betrayed by their political superiors.

It also demands a responsive civil service, one that is prepared to shape as well as implement the policy initiatives of its political superiors.

Meanwhile, local leaders were pressured into falsely reporting ever-higher grain production figures to their political superiors.

Officials should keep their political superiors fully informed, and I think that that is clearly the lesson to be learnt from this affair.