* Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke ( 1883 – 1963 ), British Chief of the Imperial General Staff in WW 2

Yusuf al -' Azmah ( / ALA-LC: Yūsuf al -‘ Aẓmah ; 1883 – July 24, 1920 ) was the Syrian Minister of War and Chief of Staff under Prince ( then King ) Faisal ( later to become Faisal I of Iraq ) from 1918 to 1920.

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

* 1955 – Jacob Lew, American politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff

In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

# Staff Sergeant ( Abbreviated: SSGT ) – E7

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.

" On Conner's recommendation, in 1925 – 26 he attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he graduated first in a class of 245 officers.

Eisenhower was the first President to hire a White House Chief of Staff or " gatekeeper " – an idea which he borrowed from the United States Army.

* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337, 000 casualties.

* 1924 – Alexander Haig, American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State ( d. 2010 )

* 2008 – Kathy Staff, British actress ( b. 1928 )

On October 7, 2000, three Israeli soldiers – Adi Avitan, Staff Sgt.

* 1942 – Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

* 1972 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

* 1947 – Cold War: U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf – then as Chief of Army Staff – was responsible for sending thousands of Pakistanis to fight alongside the Taliban and Bin Laden against the United Front.

Walther Wever ( general ) | Walther Wever, Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff, 1933 – 1936.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

* 1941 – Rein Jan Hoekstra, Dutch politician and Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers

* 1993 – H. R. Haldeman, American White House Chief of Staff ( b. 1926 )

* 1946 – Michael Mullen, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 66027 – 6900: U. S. Army Command and General Staff College,

In 1964 – 1968, he served as Chief of the Department of Staff in the Israeli General Staff.

However, due to the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War, the Japanese government also relied on Prussia as a model for their army, and hired two German military advisors ( Major Jakob Meckel, replaced in 1888 by von Wildenbrück and Captain von Blankenbourg ) for the training of the Japanese General Staff from 1886 to April 1890: the Imperial Army General Staff Office, based on the Prussian Generalstab, was established directly under the Emperor in 1878 and was given broad powers for military planning and strategy.

Charles Cahan was on the Editorial Staff, as chief editorial writer, of the Halifax Herald and Mail, 1886 – 94 ; called to Nova Scotia Bar, 1893 ; called to Quebec Bar, 1907 ; designated K. C., Nova Scotia, 1907 ; designated K. C., Quebec, 1909 ; practised corporate law at Halifax, Nova Scotia as a partner at Harris, Henry & Cahan, 1893 – 1908 ; and in Montreal, Quebec, from 1908.

* 16 December-Richard Mulcahy, Chief of Staff, TD, Cabinet Minister and former leader of Fine Gael ( born 1886 ).

`` We '' were Bill Garrett of the National Geographic Illustrations Staff, whose three cameras and eight lenses made him look as formidable as any fighting man we met ; ;

; Attacks on UN Staff workers: Section 1 ( 2 )( a ) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 ( c. 13 ) makes provision for assault causing injury, and section 1 ( 2 )( b ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on UN staff.

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.

Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.

Supporters of Gomes and his party, PAIGC, reacted to the move by demonstrating in the capital, Bissau ; Antonio Indjai, the Deputy Chief of Staff, then warned that he would have Gomes killed if the protests continued.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

The General has attended the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama ; the U. S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ; and the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

From July 1996 to July 1997 he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon ; and from November 1993 to June 1996 General Myers was Commander of U. S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

During 2010, the armoured and mechanized infantry battalions were restructured as Combined Arms Battalions ; as from 1 January 2011, each had a Staff Company, a Logistics Company, 2 Tank Companies and 2 Mechanized Infantry Companies equipped with infantry fighting vehicles ..

The details were reported by the world press: an Imperial German penetration agent betraying to Germany the secrets of the General Staff of the French Army ; the French counter-intelligence riposte of sending a charwoman to rifle the trash in the German Embassy in Paris, were news that inspired successful spy fiction.

Submitted in a command-wide contest, it was chosen as the winner by a three judge panel: General Curtis E. LeMay, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; General Thomas S. Power, Vice Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command ; and Brigadier General AW Kissner, Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command.

Staff slings were in use well into the Age of Gunpowder, as grenade launchers ; and were used in ship-to-ship combat to throw incendiaries as well.

His rapid rise continued ; in 1997 Mofaz was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff and in 1998 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.

Admiral Clark has also served as the Deputy and Chief of Staff, United States Atlantic Fleet ; the Director of Operations ( J3 ) and subsequently Director, of the Joint Staff.