::: The President of the Russian Federation shall be the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

In July, after commanding the only successful front in the disastrous Russian offensive of June, 1917, he became Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government's armed forces.

* December 19 – WWII: Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.

The Queen's commission for the governor general-designate is then read aloud by the Secretary to the Governor General and the required oaths are administered to the appointee by either the chief justice or one of the puisne justices of the Supreme Court ; the three oaths are: the Oath of Allegiance, the Oath of Office as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief, and the Oath as Keeper of the Great Seal of Canada.

The President is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces ; he appoints the Chief of the General Staff and the commanders of all of the service branches ; in wartime he nominates the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and can order a general mobilization.

In January 2008, the Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa was appointed as the Deputy Supreme Commander, while Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the BDF.

From 1974 to 1979, Haig served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ), the Commander of NATO forces in Europe, and Commander-in-Chief of United States European Command ( CinCUSEUR ).

Phibunsongkhram, a World War II hero of Thailand, the Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in 1941 had signed a formal treaty of alliance between the two Buddhist countries of Thailand and Japan in the divine presence of the Emerald Buddha in the wat.

Throughout these periods of World War II when air interdiction was practiced and developed, Tedder was always at the forefront as Air Commander-in-Chief of RAF Middle East Command, Mediterranean Air Command ( MAC ), Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, and as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for planning the air operations of the Normandy campaign.

A Commander-in-Chief is sometimes referred to as Supreme Commander, which is sometimes used as a specific term.

According to the Constitution of Russia, the President of Russia is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The King of Spain ( as of present Juan Carlos I of Spain ) is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish Armed Forces.

General Sverker Göranson is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Army.

The President of Georgia concludes international treaties and agreements and conducts negotiations with foreign states ; with the consent of Parliament, appoints and dismisses Georgian ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives ; receives the credentials of ambassadors and other diplomatic representatives of foreign states and international organizations ; with the consent of Parliament, appoints Prime Minister and members of the Government ; is empowered to remove ministers from their posts ; submits to Parliament the draft state budget, after agreeing upon its basic content with parliamentary committees ; declares a martial law and state of emergency ; with the consent of Parliament has the right to halt the activities of representative bodies of self-government or territorial units as well as of state bodies ; signs and promulgates laws ; has the right to dissolve Parliament under certain conditions set by the Constitution ; decides questions of citizenship and the granting of political asylum ; grants pardons ; schedules elections to Parliament and other representative bodies ; has the right to revoke acts of subordinate executive bodies ; is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ; and appoints members of the National Security Council, chairs its meetings, and appoints and dismisses military commanders.

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (,, ), is Congo's elected Head of State, and the ex officio " Supreme Commander " ( Commander-in-Chief ) of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( FARDC ).

Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, then Commander-in-Chief, India, was appointed Supreme Commander to ensure smooth division of units, stores and so on.

Ali Khamene ' i, a half ethnic Azerbaijani people | Azeri, is the current Supreme Leader of Iran | Supreme Leader of Iran, which makes him the Head of the State and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

In 1952 the Commander-in-Chief, Vice Admiral Sir William Andrewes, became the initial Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

A month after the outbreak of war with Japan on December 7, 1941, the Allied governments jointly appointed the British Commander-in-Chief ( CinC ) of the Army of India, General Sir Archibald Wavell, as Supreme Allied Commander of all " American-British-Dutch-Australian " ( ABDA ) forces in South East Asia and the Pacific, from Burma to the Dutch East Indies.

Initially U. S. land units were split between those who came under the operational command of the India Command under General Sir Archibald Wavell, as the Commander-in-Chief in India, and those in China, which ( technically at least ) were commanded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, as the Supreme Allied Commander in China.

The Soviet Navy colours had the 1935 official design with them ( it was later revised in 1950 ), with additions for units honoured with the Order of the Red Banner, but in 1964 the Supreme Commander's and Defense Minister's own naval colour and the colours of the Navy Commander-in-Chief ( formerly the Minister for the Navy ) and Chief of Naval Operations were issued with different designs used, with the addition of the Armed Forces General Staff's own naval colour.

The Cossack Host Command decided to listen to what Kaledin had to say, first, and then to send him to Mogilev to explain himself in the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, as Kerensky had requested.

Both Striking Fleet Atlantic and the United States Sixth Fleet have never been allowed to be placed anywhere but directly under American commanding officers — the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe, because the dominant legal interpretation of the McMahon Act has been that nuclear striking forces cannot be controlled by non-US commanders.

General Mark W. Clark, Commander-in-Chief, UNC, later countersigned the document in a separate ceremony at Munsan, approximately 18 kilometers ( 11 mi ) south of the DMZ ; and Marshal Kim Il Sung, Korean People's Army ( KPA ) Supreme Commander, along with Peng Teh-huai, Commander, Chinese People's Volunteer Army ( CPV ), countersigned it at Kaesong, approximately 10 kilometers ( 6 mi ) to the north in another separate ceremony.

* 1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union.

Although the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusians SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic on July 27, 1990 ( some two weeks after Russia had declared its own sovereignty ), the March 1991 referendum held throughout the Soviet Union showed that 83 percent of Belarusians wanted to preserve the Soviet Union.

Of the 346 deputies to the Belarusian Supreme Soviet elected in 1990, fourteen were still vacant three years later, owing to voter apathy.

Taler (), divided in 100 hrosh () was suggested as the name for a Belarusian currency, however the Communist majority in the Supreme Soviet of Belarus rejected the proposal and stuck to the Russian word ruble.

On August 2, 2004 the Supreme Court of Belarus liquidated the Belarusian Labour Party.

On October 11, 2007, the Supreme Court of Belarus liquidated the Belarusian Women's Party " Nadzieja ".

The construction of the Belarusian Tyre Works " Belshina " in Bobruisk was sanctioned by Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR # 299 dated March 25, 1963 " On steps aimed at better utilization of workforce of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic " and by resolution No. 90-p dated June 11, 1965 by Supreme Soviet, which approved the design task for construction of the Works.

When Belarus became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Belarus passed the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, giving powers to itself to alter the 1978 constitution of the Byelorussian SSR.

Upon approval from the Supreme Soviet, the first draft was published in December 1991 in order for the Belarusian populace to make comments and suggestions.

The Supreme Soviet passed a second law along with the Constitution, titled the Enactment Law, rendering the 1978 Byelorussian SSR Constitution and the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic void, with a few exceptions.

One more minor change was introduced into the USSR State Motto in the Belarusian language by a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on April 1, 1958.

On September 20, 1991 the Supreme Soviet of Belarus passed resolution " On the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus " and on January 11, 1992 resolution " On the Armed Forces deployed in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

On March 18, 1992 the parliament passed resolution " On the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus " that bound the government " to start the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus as of March 20, 1992 " and " to submit to the Supreme Soviet for approval the suggested structure of the Armed Forces, their size and order of their material and technical supplies ".

It includes the Presidents of the National Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice ; the ministers in charge of National Defence, Government and Police, Foreign Affairs, and Economy and Finance ; the Chief of the Joint Command, and the Chiefs of the three branches of the Armed Forces.

Following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, and the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, executive power was assumed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which dissolved the parliament, and suspended the constitution.

He was replaced by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces headed by Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, which dissolved the Parliament of Egypt, suspended the Constitution of Egypt, and promised free, open presidential and parliamentary elections before the year's end and within six months.

Following the 11 February 2011 resignation of president Hosni Mubarak, Egypt came under the authority of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, commonly referred to as the Military Council.

Senior members of the military can convene for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, so during the course of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, when Mubarak resigned and transferred power to this body on February 11, 2011.

* Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

* Egypt ’ s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, The New York Times, February 10, 2011

The YDPA shall also be the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces ( i. e. Police, Army ) in the Federation of Malaysia ( Article 41 ).

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( Supreme High Command of the Armed Forces or OKW ) commanded OKH only in theory.

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.

Furthermore, the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization was also a First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, and the head of the Warsaw Treaty Combined Staff also was a First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.

" Armed with arguments crafted in this way, OpenLaw took Eldritch's case -- deemed unwinnable at the outset -- right through the system to the Supreme Court.

The government argued that Stanley was barred from suing under a legal doctrine — known as the Feres doctrine, after a 1950 Supreme Court case, Feres v. United States — that prohibits members of the Armed Forces from suing the government for any harms that were inflicted " incident to service.

On 21 March 1989 The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR decided to take the Internal Troops out of the Armed Forces and give them to the Interior Ministry.

As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ) and de facto war minister under Adolf Hitler, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II.

In the following year, after the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, the Ministry of War ( Reichskriegsministerium ) was replaced by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW ), and Keitel was appointed as its chief.