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Tassio Franchi, an Amazon expert at the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff School, said the military’s fears were justified in a dangerous, lawless region, surrounded by the world’s top three cocaine-producing nations.

There is a core of military moderates�officers who once studied at the High General Staff School under General Manuel Diez Alegria, who was abruptly sacked as army chief of staff by Franco in June 1974.

When he was finally sent to Viet Nam for a regular tour in August 1968, he was a lieutenant colonel�one of the best-trained, most highly respected officers in the service, with a string of outstanding evaluation reports behind him and a promise of a slot at the Command and General Staff School before him�a necessary stop on the way to the top of the Army hierarchy.

After a stint of advanced study at Paris' general staff school, he returned and, following Diem's installation in 1955, launched his guerrilla-style campaign against the Binh Xuyen bandits.

After routine duty in the coast artillery in the U.S. and the Philippines, he taught philosophy at West Point in 1934, went on to Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, graduating in 1936.