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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.
Several military leaders played a role in the American Revolutionary War. This is a compilation of some of the most important leaders among the many participants in the war. Militia: a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency or a body of citizens organized for military service. [1]
The Commanders of World War II were for the most part career officers.They were forced to adapt to new technologies and forged the direction of modern warfare. Some political leaders, particularly those of the principal dictatorships involved in the conflict, Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Hirohito (Japan), acted as dictators for their respective countries or empires.
Rank in military Notes Hibatullah Akhundzada Taliban: Supreme Leader of Afghanistan (2016–present) until 1992 1996–2001: Leader of the Taliban. Served during the Soviet–Afghan War, Afghan Civil War (1996–2001), and War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). Anatoly Bibilov Soviet Union South Ossetia Russia: President of South Ossetia (2017–2022)
However, after the 1988 presidential election, the shine had dulled on military-veteran politicians, and through 2012, "the candidate with the better military record lost." [2] As of December 2018, George H. W. Bush was the most recent president to have served in combat (as an aircraft carrier-based bomber pilot in World War II). [3]
Senior leadership at the Army Commander's Conference, 20 October 1983. Generals Richard E. Cavazos ( third from left ) and Roscoe Robinson Jr. ( third from right ) are the first Hispanic and first African-American four-star generals in the Army.
In this October 2018 photo, then-US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens as then-President Donald Trump answers questions during a meeting with military leaders in the Cabinet Room in Washington, DC.
Military Governor of Tennessee – Civil War: Served in the 90th Regiment of Tennessee Militia in 1830s. Later appointed Colonel. United States Army (volunteers) Rutherford B. Hayes: Civil War: Successful leadership in Virginia/West Virginia region; wounded at the Battle of South Mountain. Later appointed Brevet Major General. United States Army