[citation needed] During the Balkan Wars he served in the staff of the 4th Infantry Division under Major General Konstantinos Moschopoulos.

In December 1912, he suggested to Lieutenant General Konstantinos Sapountzakis, and then to the Crown Prince Constantine the idea of capturing the strategic hill of Tsouka, west of the fortress of Bizani that was blocking the Greek advance towards Ioannina.

[citation needed] Following the victory of the royalist opposition in the November 1920 elections, he was placed on leave, and only recalled to active service after the collapse of the Greek front in Asia Minor and the September 1922 Revolution.

[1] He resigned from the Army in August 1923 with the rank of major general,[1] and settled in Athens, where he witnessed the royalist Leonardopoulos-Gargalidis coup attempt.

He then entered the political arena, and was elected a Member of Parliament for Athens,[1] a post to which he was continually re-elected until December 1930.