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Chief of the General Staff

Chief of the General Staff (Canada) (prior to the 1964 military reorganization; now Commander of the Canadian Army)


2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, delivered his second holiday address, and it was the first parade for both the Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergey Shoigu (parade inspector) and Russian Ground Forces commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin (parade commander), replacing Valery Gerasimov who has been promoted to Chief of the General Staff.

Ankara Güvercinlik Army Air Base

The statement of the Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Doğan Güreş, that the accident on that snowy day was caused by atmospheric icing was denied by the crash investigators.

Hyon Yong-chol

Hyon was promoted to the rank of Vice Marshal (차수) of the KPA in July 2012, two days after Chief of the General Staff Ri Yong-ho was relieved of his duties.

Kim Kyok-sik

He received command of the 2nd Army Corps in October 1994 and held it until April 2007, when he was appointed Chief of the General Staff replacing Kim Yong-chun, who had been appointed defence minister.

Sergiy Kirichenko

On June 6, 2005 by Decree # 961/2005 of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, he was assigned to be the Chief of the General Staff – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

General of Army of Ukraine Sergiy Kirichenko, (born May 4, 1952) was the 9th Chief of the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ştefan Guşă

Ştefan Guşă or Guşe (17 April 1940 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian general who was the Chief of the General Staff of the Romanian Armed Forces between 1986 and 1989.


see also

Ali Abdullah Ayyoub

The appointment of Ayyoub as Chief of the General Staff was a result of Fahd Jassem al-Freij promotion to the post of Defense Minister and Deputy Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, in the wake of the 2012 Damascus bombing.

Charles Harington

General Sir Charles Henry Pepys Harington (1910–2007), Deputy Chief of the General Staff, 1966–1968, and Chief of Personnel and Logistics at the UK Ministry of Defence, 1968–1971

Dannatt

Richard Dannatt, British Army general and former Chief of the General Staff.

Franz Konrad

Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852–1925), Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the outbreak of World War I

Gerhard Ritter

Ritter accused Fischer of manufacturing the quote he attributed to the German general Moltke, Chief of the General Staff, during a meeting with the Austro-Hungarian War Minister, Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf, about the necessity of a "speedy attack" on Serbia.

Hilmi

Hilmi Özkök (born 1940), the 24th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces

John Stanier

Field Marshal John Wilfred Stanier (1925–2007), Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom), 1982–1985

Lobenhoffer

Karl Ritter von Lobenhoffer (1843–1901), Bavarian general and Chief of the General Staff of the Bavarian army

Marshal of Poland

Recently, however, the rank of four-star with modernized name Generał has been introduced, and on August 15, 2002, was granted to Czesław Piątas, at present civilian, former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Poland.

Mieczysław Gocuł

In 2008 Gocuł became the Chief of the J5 Strategic Planning Directorate and in October 2010 he became the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces and later was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in 2011.

Nedić

Milan Nedić (1877–1946), Serbian general and politician, chief of the general staff of the Yugoslav Army

Nikolay Makarov

Nikolay Yegorovich Makarov (b. 1949), Russian general and Chief of the General Staff