* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

Later from May to September 4, 1992 he served as Chief of General Staff of Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

After Lt Gen Barshadli became Chief of General Staff, subsequent defense ministers from 1992 have included:

On September 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dedicated the Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

As of 2011 the Atlanta Falcons Executive Committee consisted of ten people: Arthur Blank, Owner and Chairman ; Rich McKay, President & CEO ; Thomas Dimitroff, General Manager ; Kim Shreckengost, Executive Vice President / Chief of Staff for AMB Group, LLC ; Greg Beadles, Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer ; Jim Smith, Chief Marketing Officer ; Danny Branch, Vice President of Information Technology ; Dave Cohen, Vice President of Sales and Service ; Reggie Roberts, Vice President of Football Communications and Tim Zulawski, VP of Sponsorship Sales and Service.

** General Staff of the Armed Forces

The three services are separate from each other, except in three areas: the Armed Forces General Staff ( Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas-EMFA ), the National Defense Council ( Conselho de Defesa Nacional-CDN ), and the Armed Forces High Command ( Alto Comando das Forças Armadas-ACFA ).

The Army General Staff ( Estado-Maior do Exército-EME ) directs training and operations.

Naval operations are directed from the Ministry of Navy in Brasília through the Navy General Staff ( Estado-Maior da Armada-EMA ), six naval districts ( five oceanic and one riverine ), and two naval commands-Brasília Naval Command ( Comando Naval de Brasília-CNB ) and Manaus Naval Command ( Comando Naval de Manaus-CNM ).

The Ministry of Defence is in charge of political leadership while military command remains in the hands of the General Staff, headed by the Chief of Staff.

Currently headed by Chief of Staff general Simeon Simeonov, the General Staff is responsible for operational command of the Bulgarian Army and its 3 major branches.

After the war he became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine ( BAOR ) in Germany and then Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

Montgomery served at the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917 before finishing the war as General Staff Officer 1 and effectively chief of staff of the 47th ( 2nd London ) Division, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel.

In January 1926 having been promoted to major in 1925, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the Staff College, Camberley in the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel, a position he held until January 1929 by which time he had been made a ( brevet lieutenant-colonel ).

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Category: Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

Although the German General Staff was also abolished by the treaty, it nevertheless continued to exist as the Truppenamt or " Troop Office ", supposedly only an administrative body.

It was only after the hastily improvised plan for the invasion of Western Europe in 1940 and its successful conclusion, which led the German General Staff to believe that decisive battles were not obsolete.

Moreover Frieser states that surviving German economists and members of the German General Staff have denied Germany went to war based on a blitzkrieg strategy.

Among them, Guderian claimed, was Chief of the General Staff Ludwig Beck ( 1935 – 38 ), who he alleged was skeptical that armored forces could be decisive.

Guderian expressed a hearty contempt for General Ludwig Beck, chief of the General Staff from 1935 to 1938, whom he characterized as hostile to ideas of modern mechanised warfare: quoting Guderian " He was a paralyzing element wherever he appeared .... ignificantly of his way of thought was his much-boosted method of fighting which he called delaying defense ".

Historian John Erickson dates 1 February 1924, when Mikhail Frunze became head of the Red Army Staff, as the ascent of the General Staff, which dominated Soviet military planning and operations.

The Speaker appoints the House Historian and the General Counsel and, jointly with the Majority and Minority Leaders, appoints the House's Inspector General.

But according to the " Biography of Li Si " in the Records of the Grand Historian, the naming taboo was not adhered to universally: " General Tian and Fusu were living far away.

During World War II he worked as Chief Historian on General Eisenhower's staff, having achieved the rank of Colonel, and was the recipient of numerous awards for bravery.

" Historian Steven E. Woodworth wrote, " Beneath the ponderous dome of his high forehead, the General would gaze goggle-eyed at those who spoke to him, reflecting long before answering and simultaneously rubbing both elbows all the while, leading one observer to quip that the great intelligence he was reputed to possess must be located in his elbows.

Historian Gary B. Nash wrote of what was called the “ General Terror of November 1 – 4 ”:

Dr. Prange was a Professor of History at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1980 with a break of nine years ( 1942 – 1951 ) of military service overseas, and in the postwar era of military occupation of Japan, when he was the Chief Historian in General Douglas MacArthur's staff.

Historian Francis Loraine Petre wrote that General of Division Nicolas Léonard Beker's 1, 200-strong 5th Dragoon Division was also present, but did not note its composition.

( 1948 ) the Official Historian J. E. Edmonds wrote that Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force and General Gough the Fifth Army commander were at cross purposes before and during the early part of the Third Ypres campaign.

* Jorge Rodriguez Beruff, Historian, author and Dean: UPR General Studies Faculty

Historian and archivist Aimar Altosaar was re-elected Secretary General in 2005, having served in the same position from 1996 to 1999.

The launch of the Six From Borneo Project was attended by the Malaysian Consul General Puan Hamidah Ashari, Member for Moore Grant Woodhams MLA, Military Historian Lynette Silver, relatives of Sandakan POWs and Toodyay community members.

Historian Lowell H. Harrison wrote that the anti-slavery votes of the ministers may have accounted for the adoption of a provision that forbade ministers from serving in the Kentucky General Assembly.

After World War II, as General Designer of small arms for the Soviet Army, his design subordinates included the Germans Hugo Schmeisser, designer of the StG-44, and Werner Grüner ( of MG 42 fame ) who was a pioneer in sheet metal embossing technology in the 1950s.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez visited Vietnam in 2006 and since then his government has stepped up bilateral relations with the country, which also included receiving the Communist Party General Secretary, Nong Duc Manh in 2007.

( Hugo Black, dissenting, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson ( 303 U. S. 77, 1938 ).

Regarded as the year GEC was founded, 1886 saw Byng joined by a fellow immigrant, Hugo Hirst, and the company changed its name to The General Electric Apparatus Company ( G. Binswanger ).

In his dissent in the 1938 case of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Johnson, Justice Hugo Black wrote " in 1886, this Court in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, decided for the first time that the word ' person ' in the amendment did in some instances include corporations.

Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).

* Hugo Ritter von Bosch ( 1782 – 1865 ), Bavarian Lieutenant General and Acting War Minister

The Prussian officers of the V Corps near Dieffenbach, knowing nothing of the orders the Bavarians had received, were amazed ; but at length, when about 10: 30 h their comrades were seen retiring, in some cases in great disorder, the corps commander, General Hugo von Kirchbach, decided that an effort must at once be made to relieve the Bavarians.

After a difficult coalition-building process, Sánchez de Lozada was elected in a coalition formed by the MNR-MBL, MIR and UCS, the last two former members of the preceding coalition headed by the rightist, former dictator General Hugo Banzer.

Through a series of coups General Hugo Banzer took power in Bolivia in 1971.

Army of the Isthmus ( Kannaksen Armeija, KannA ) under Lieutenant General Hugo Österman was located on the Karelian Isthmus.

Hugo Kołłątaj, and General Józef Wodzicki, on The Battle of Racławice ).

In a speech before the UN General Assembly in September 2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez openly praised the work.

Brazilian General Hugo Alvim assumed command of the OAS ground forces, and on 26 May the US forces began to withdraw.

The commanding General at this time was Charles Colville, In his novel Les Misérables Victor Hugo credits Colville with asking for the surrender of the Imperial Guard at Waterloo and receiving General Cambronne's reply of " Merd ".

Similarly the commander of the German Legion Condor, General Hugo Sperrle, commanded the Italian air force in Spain.

In his novel Les Misérables Victor Hugo credits Maitland ( or Colville ) with asking for the surrender of the Imperial Guard and receiving General Cambronne's reply of " Merde ".

The President then withdrew his support for the government, then-presided by Vítor Hugo de Azevedo, and to calm the Army called on General Joaquim Pimenta de Castro ( who had been the Minister of War under João Chagas ) to form a government.

However the Commander of the Irish Second Division based on the Northern Ireland border General Hugo McNeill had private discussions with the German Ambassador Edouard Hempel about German military assistance in the event of a British invasion from the north.

Quiroga had been the chief advocate of bringing to trial the former dictator, General Hugo Banzer ( 1971 – 78 ), for human right violations and economic mismanagement.

* 206th Infantry Division-Commanded by General Hugo Höfl.

Hugo Hirst of the British General Electric Company introduced it commercially into Great Britain from 1888.

The Hugo Throssell ward at the former Repatriation General Hospital, Hollywood was named in his honour.