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This category is for senior military leaders such as admirals, generals and air marshals. It includes military leaders with strategic influence who pre-dated the formal establishment of ranks as well as senior commanders in irregular militaries who may not hold rank. For middle and junior ranking officers, see Category:Military officers.
100: British Royal Air Force officer and businessman [54] Dorothy Frooks: 1896–1997: 101: American author, publisher, military officer, and military lawyer [55] Robert B. Fulton: 1910–2015: 104: American Navy officer [19] John Gonge: 1921– 103: American Air Force officer [56] Edward Greer: 1924–2025: 100: American army officer [57 ...
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The only other four-time recipient was Leonid Brezhnev, who never rose above modest military rank and received all of his four Hero of the Soviet Union medals for his birthday as part of his overall cult of personality and love for medals, titles, and decorations. Despite his general lack of political ability, Zhukov became the highest-ranking ...
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
This category is for senior American military leaders holding the rank of admiral or general. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Many presidents, however, also served in the military before taking office. All but 13 of the 45 [a] persons to become president have served. Of the 32 presidents with military service, 31 have been commissioned officers, of whom five began their careers as regular officers (Jimmy Carter transferred to the Navy Reserve after five years in the ...
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.