What Do Generals Do When They Retire?

Brewing Flap Over Military Senior Mentors -- Small Wars Journal

How Some Retired Military Officers Became Well-paid Consultants - Tom Vanden Brook, Ken Dilanian and Ray Locker, USA Today.

... As "senior mentors," as the military calls them, the retired officers help run war games and offer advice to former colleagues. Some mentors make as much as $330 an hour as part-time government advisers, more than triple what their rate of pay was as high-level, active-duty officers. They earn more - far more, several mentors said in interviews - as consultants and board members to defense companies.

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WNU Editor: The Small Wars Journal has collected a number of excellent articles that examines what Generals do when they retired. A number of valid points are raised.