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The minister of defence (Dutch: Minister van Defensie) is the head of the Ministry of Defence and a member of the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers.The incumbent minister is Ruben Brekelmans of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) party who has been in office since 2 July 2024.
The Chief of Defence is the military leader of the Netherlands Armed Forces and the most senior military adviser to the Minister of Defence. The Chief of Defence has command over the Armed Forces, the Netherlands Special Operations Command (NLD SOCOM) and the Defence Cyber Command .
Cabinet Prime Minister Term of office Demissionary Time in office Parties Political position Orientation Legislature Status Type Election; Kappeyne van de Coppello [1] Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello: 3 November 1877 () 20 August 1879 () 11 July 1879 () 1 year, 290 days Centre-right: Liberal: Majority: Conventional 1877
The highest military official is the Chief of Defence (Dutch: Commandant der Strijdkrachten). He is a four-star general or admiral and controls the branches of the armed forces, which are organized in three operational commands: the Royal Netherlands Navy Command; the Royal Netherlands Army Command; the Royal Netherlands Air Force Command.
Hanke Bruins Slot, a military veteran who served with the Dutch army in Afghanistan, was appointed Monday as the Netherlands' new foreign minister. Bruins Slot had been interior minister in the ...
The position of C-LAS was created on 5 September 2005 as part of a thorough reorganization within the Dutch Ministry of Defence in which the staffs (military and civilian) were reduced in size and an entire organizational layer was dropped. prior to the reorganization the commanding officer of the Army was the "Bevelhebber der Landstrijdkrachten" (abbreviated BLS; the term also translates into ...
The cabinet of the Netherlands announced in 2016 that the Netherlands would contribute troops to the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence mission in Lithuania [75] to protect and reassure countries on NATO's eastern flank—Baltic countries and Poland in particular—of their security following increased political tensions sparked by the Russo ...
Armed forces • Military policy • National security • Veterans Affairs • Military police • Defence diplomacy • Humanitarian aid • Army • Navy • Air Force • Marechaussee • Coastguard • Military Intelligence and Security Service: Ruben Brekelmans as Minister of Defence: Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Dutch ...