military officer

A military officer is a formally commissioned leader in the armed forces responsible for planning, directing, and managing operations, personnel, and resources to achieve strategic and tactical objectives.

Aliases (50)

• military commander ×137
• military leader ×135
• British Army officer ×101
• field marshal ×47
• German general ×43
• Royal Air Force officer ×36
• military position ×35
• United States Army general ×34
• French general ×26
• Roman general ×25
• German military officer ×22
• United States Army officer ×20
• Imperial Japanese Army general ×19
• United States Navy admiral ×18
• Wehrmacht general ×17
• Marshal of the Soviet Union ×15
• Union Army general ×15
• Wehrmacht officer ×15
• United States Air Force general ×14
• Continental Army officer ×12
• marshal of France ×12
• British Army officer rank ×11
• Spanish military officer ×11
• Italian general ×10
• Soviet general ×10
• military strategist ×10
• British military officer ×9
• Confederate general ×9
• Polish general ×9
• Portuguese military officer ×9
• Soviet military officer ×9
• United States Army Air Forces general ×8
• air marshal ×8
• military engineer ×8
• Polish military officer ×7
• United States Air Force officer ×7
• United States Marine Corps general ×7
• American Revolutionary War general ×6
• Australian Army officer ×6
• Chinese Communist revolutionary ×6
• Chinese military commander ×6
• Japanese military officer ×6
• commissioned officer rank ×6
• American military officer ×5
• Boer general ×5
• Chinese military leader ×5
• French Army general ×5
• Luftwaffe officer ×5
• Marshal of France ×5
• Russian general ×5

Instances (showing first 500 of 1,501)

• Jopie Fourie ("South African military officer")
• Frederick Dent Grant ("United States Army general")
• Andrey Yeremenko ("Soviet general")
• Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma ("German general")
• Benedict Arnold
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• John Barry
• Philippe Pétain ("French general")
• Sam Houston ("military leader")
• Telford Taylor
• Anthony Wayne
• Myles Standish
• Maurice of Nassau ("military leader")
• William T. Sampson ("United States Navy admiral")
• Frederick II of Prussia ("military leader")
• Alexandros Papagos ("Greek military officer")
• Jean de Lattre de Tassigny ("French Army general")
• Hermann Hoth ("German general")
• Miles Dempsey ("British Army officer")
• Flavius Josephus ("military leader")
• Percy Fawcett ("British Army officer")
• Robert Rogers
• Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick ("Prussian field marshal")
• Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange ("military leader")
• Raymond A. Spruance ("United States Navy admiral")
• Hannibal (Carthaginian general) ("Carthaginian general")
• Francis Smith ("British Army officer")
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Hernán Cortés ("military leader")
• Xenophon ("military leader")
• Nobutake Kondō ("Japanese military officer")
• Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen ("German military officer")
• Ivan Susloparov ("Soviet general")
• Giulio Douhet
• Reginald Dyer was relieved of command ("British Army officer")
• William II, Prince of Orange ("military leader")
• Charles de Gaulle ("French army officer")
• Lazare Carnot ("military engineer")
• Merian C. Cooper
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
• William R. Shafter ("United States Army general")
• Samuel Smith
• Omar Bradley ("United States Army general")
• Leonard Darwin ("British Army officer")
• William Stephenson
• Markos Vafiadis ("military leader")
• Robert Ross ("British Army officer")
• Isamu Chō ("Imperial Japanese Army general")
• Napoleon Bonaparte ("military leader")
• Trajan ("Roman general")
• Winfield Scott
• Pericles ("military leader")
• Leslie R. Groves Jr. ("United States Army officer")
• James Roosevelt II ("United States Marine Corps officer")
• Reginald Dyer ("British Indian Army officer")
• Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ("French army officer")
• General Officer Commanding, 4th Indian Division ("military position")
• Israel Putnam ("American Revolutionary War general")
• Samuel Francis Du Pont ("military leader")
• Tadeusz Rozwadowski ("Polish general")
• António de Spínola ("Portuguese military officer")
• Bruno Mussolini ("Italian Air Force officer")
• Thomas Blamey ("Australian Army officer")
• Eduard Rydz-Śmigły ("Polish military officer")
• Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve ("French military officer")
• Captain Thomas Preston ("British Army officer")
• Wilhelm Keitel ("German military officer")
• Arthur Tedder ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Erwin Rommel ("German military officer")
• Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma ("military commander")
• Charles Cornwallis ("British Army officer")
• Oliver Otis Howard ("Union Army general")
• Friedrich Paulus ("German military officer")
• William Halsey Jr. ("United States Navy admiral")
• Hideki Tojo
• Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho ("Portuguese military officer")
• Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Command ("military position")
• General Officer Commanding, Northern Command (India) ("military position")
• Władysław Sikorski ("Polish general")
• James Winchester ("American military officer")
• Salgueiro Maia ("Portuguese military officer")
• Ulysses S. Grant ("Union Army general")
• Vasily Chuikov ("Soviet general")
• Maxwell D. Taylor ("United States Army general")
• Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque ("French general")
• Chief of the General Staff ("military position")
• Alexander Löhr
• John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham ("British Army officer")
• Rutherford B. Hayes ("Union Army officer")
• Georgy Zhukov ("Marshal of the Soviet Union")
• James M. Gavin ("United States Army officer")
• Walter Model ("German general")
• Alfred Gause ("German general")
• Henry Clinton ("British Army officer")
• Paul W. Tibbets Jr.
• James A. Garfield ("Union Army officer")
• Konstantin Rokossovsky ("Marshal of the Soviet Union")
• Wilhelm Bittrich ("German military officer")
• Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen Sr. ("United States Navy admiral")
• Walter Bedell Smith ("United States Army general")
• Mitsuru Ushijima ("Japanese Army general")
• Ernst Busch ("German military officer")
• Isoroku Yamamoto
• Titus ("Roman general")
• Marie-Pierre Kœnig ("French general")
• Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen ("military commander")
• Guillaume-Henri Dufour ("Swiss general")
• Lawrence Moore Cosgrave ("Canadian military officer")
• Monty ("military commander")
• Minoru Ōta ("military commander")
• Wait Winthrop
• Eugene Francis of Savoy ("military commander")
• Benito Mussolini ("military leader")
• Alexander the Great ("military commander")
• Francisco Franco
• Mao Zedong ("military leader")
• Lord Gort ("British Army officer")
• Robert Guiscard ("military leader")
• Erhard Milch ("German military officer")
• Sholto Douglas ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Carl Spaatz
• Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau ("French general")
• Zhu De ("Chinese military leader")
• Yitzhak Rabin
• Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons ("military commander")
• Ignacio Allende
• Hugo Sperrle ("German military officer")
• Heinrich von Vietinghoff ("German general")
• Louis-Joseph de Montcalm ("French general")
• Jérôme Bonaparte ("Marshal of France")
• Stéphane Mille ("French Air and Space Force officer")
• Italo Balbo
• Douglas MacArthur
• Auchinleck ("British Army officer")
• Liu Bocheng ("Chinese military commander")
• Oliver Cromwell ("military leader")
• Henry Montague Hozier ("British Army officer")
• Peter Fleming ("British Army officer")
• Pietro Badoglio ("Italian military officer")
• Tatya Tope ("military leader")
• George Armistead ("United States Army officer")
• Lin Biao ("Chinese military commander")
• Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt ("Royal Air Force officer")
• James Wolfe ("British Army officer")
• Kunwar Singh ("military leader")
• Paul von Hindenburg ("German military officer")
• Pedro de Valdivia
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ("military leader")
• Second Lieutenant ("commissioned officer rank")
• Captain Juan Ramon
• John F. Kelly ("United States Marine Corps general")
• Adolf Galland ("Luftwaffe officer")
• Simón Bolívar ("military leader")
• Dom Pedro I of Brazil ("military leader")
• Lord Trenchard ("British military officer")
• Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron ("British Army officer")
• Zhang Fakui
• Moore Barracks ("British Army general")
• Orhan ("military leader")
• North Korean General Nam Il ("North Korean military officer")
• Prince Eugene of Savoy ("military commander")
• José de San Martín ("military leader")
• Sir Thomas Fairfax ("Parliamentarian commander")
• U.S. Army officers ("commissioned officers")
• Emilio Mola
• Matthew Ridgway ("United States Army general")
• Heihachiro Togo ("Japanese military personnel")
• Ion Antonescu
• Japanese Central China Area Army commanders ("military position")
• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. ("U.S. Navy officer")
• Günther Rall ("German military officer")
• Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. ("United States Army general")
• José Sanjurjo
• Hsu Yung-chang ("Chinese military officer")
• Valentine Fleming ("British Army officer")
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas ("Royal Air Force officer")
• James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick ("military commander")
• Commander, United States European Command ("military position")
• Lord Kitchener ("British Army officer")
• Georges Catroux ("French general")
• Bernardo O'Higgins ("military leader")
• Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory ("Royal Air Force officer")
• John Sullivan
• Antonio de Villarroel ("military commander")
• José Gervasio Artigas ("military leader")
• Henri Giraud ("French general")
• John Strange Spencer-Churchill ("British Army officer")
• Pedro de Alvarado ("military commander")
• Antonio José de Sucre ("military leader")
• Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy ("military commander")
• MCPON ("military position")
• Air Marshal Sir Roderic Hill ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Isamu Yokoyama ("Imperial Japanese Army general")
• Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Prince Faisal bin Hussein
• Francisco de Miranda
• Hans-Georg von Friedeburg ("German military officer")
• Toussaint Louverture ("military leader")
• Confederate military leadership ("military leadership")
• Air Marshal Sir Thomas Pike ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Maurice Gamelin ("French Army general")
• Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command ("senior Royal Air Force post")
• Brigadier General Chuck Edwards ("United States Air Force officer")
• Air Marshal Sir Christopher Hartley ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Tadamichi Kuribayashi
• Robert Clive ("British Army officer")
• Banastre Tarleton ("British Army officer")
• Air Marshal Sir John Grandy ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Ferdinand Foch ("French general")
• Captain Frans Banning Cocq ("militia captain")
• Murad Bey ("military commander")
• Air Marshal Sir Denis Smallwood ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Hata Shunroku ("Imperial Japanese Army general")
• Air Marshal Sir Timothy O'Brien ("Royal Air Force officer")
• Schalk Willem Burger ("military leader")
• Kiyoshi Katsuki ("Imperial Japanese Army general")
• George Monck ("military commander")
• Josip Broz Tito ("military leader")
• Daniel Morgan
• Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine ("military commander")
• Charles XII of Sweden ("military leader")
• Lord Chelmsford ("British Army officer")
• William Slim ("British Army officer")
• Francis Marion
• Chief of Space Operations ("four-star flag officer position")
• Nguyen Hue (Nguyen Chi Thanh and other PAVN leaders often associated) ("Vietnamese military officer")
• Michał Rola-Żymierski ("Polish military officer")
• Vo Nguyen Giap ("military commander")
• Gotthard Heinrici ("German general")
• Arthur MacArthur Jr. ("United States Army general")
• Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst ("British Army officer")
• Hans-Valentin Hube ("German general")
• Johannes van den Bosch
• Colin Powell (U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff)
• John Profumo ("British Army officer")
• Hans-Jürgen Stumpff ("German general")
• Nguyen Van Thieu
• Bernard Montgomery ("British Army officer")
• Claire Lee Chennault
• William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington ("British Army officer")
• Claude Auchinleck ("British Army officer")
• Jonathan M. Wainwright ("United States Army general")
• Albert Kesselring ("German military officer")
• Andrew Pickens ("militia officer")
• Jacques-François Menou ("French general")
• Kim Kyong-hui ("military official")
• Tommy Franks
• Joseph W. Stilwell ("United States Army general")
• Arthur Percival ("British Army officer")
• Archibald Roosevelt
• William Howe ("British Army general")
• Fulgencio Batista
• Alexander Papagos ("Greek military officer")
• Douglas Haig ("British Army officer")
• John J. Pershing ("United States Army general")
• Buzz Aldrin
• Diego de Almagro ("military leader")
• Guy Carleton ("British Army officer")
• Jean Moreau (as military supporter) ("French general")
• Pasquale Paoli ("military leader")
• Yoshijiro Umezu
• Masaharu Homma ("Imperial Japanese Army general")
• Mateo de Toro y Zambrano ("Chilean military officer")
• Andrew Bacevich ("retired U.S. Army officer")
• Josef Priller ("German military officer")
• Johannes Steinhoff ("German general")
• Esek Hopkins ("military leader")
• United States Army General Mark W. Clark ("United States Army general")
• John Stark
• Winfield Scott Hancock ("Union Army general")
• Thomas Fairfax ("military commander")
• Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia ("military commander")
• Neil Ritchie ("British Army officer")
• William Henry Harrison
• Henry Lee III
• Bernard Freyberg ("British Army officer")
• Daria Castle ("military leader")
• Thomas Macdonough
• Alan Brooke ("British Army officer")
• Gerhard Schöpfel ("Luftwaffe officer")
• Sudirman ("Indonesian military officer")
• Alexander Vandegrift ("United States Marine Corps general")
• Harukichi Hyakutake ("Japanese military officer")
• Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher ("Prussian field marshal")
• John Burgoyne ("British Army officer")
• Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven ("military commander")
• Jacob Zeilin ("United States Marine Corps officer")
• Charles Cabell ("United States Air Force general")
• Hastings Ismay ("British Army officer")
• Alfred Jodl ("German general")
• Harry Schmidt ("United States Marine Corps general")
• Maximilian de Angelis ("German general")
• Anton Lopatin ("Soviet military officer")
• Xue Yue ("military commander")
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ("British Army officer")
• Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg ("Austrian field marshal")
• Robert Blake
• William Westmoreland ("United States Army general")
• Muriel Whiting ("Royal Air Force officer")
• General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division ("military position")
• Lieutenant General John F. Sattler ("United States Marine Corps general")
• Muhammad Ali Pasha ("military commander")
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi ("military leader")
• François Certain Canrobert ("French Army officer")
• Frederick Browning ("British Army officer")
• John Pitcairn ("British military officer")
• Georg Stumme ("German general")
• Omar Pasha ("Ottoman military officer")
• Lord Raglan ("British Army officer")
• General Alfonso La Marmora ("Italian general")
• Prince Menshikov ("military commander")
• Hjalmar Siilasvuo ("Finnish general")
• Chiang Chieh-shih ("military leader")
• David Petraeus ("retired U.S. Army general")
• Lieutenant General Thomas F. Metz ("United States Army officer")
• Thomas Gage ("British Army officer")
• Admiral Wesley L. McDonald ("United States Navy admiral")
• Guillermo José de la Vega y Varona (acting Spanish commander at Morro) ("Spanish military officer")
• Baron Rideau ("British Army officer")
• Mikhail Frunze ("military commander")
• Francisco Javier de la Lastra
• Alexander Nevsky ("military leader")
• Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander ("British Army officer")
• Gamal Abdel Nasser
• Mikhail Gorchakov ("Russian military commander")
• Robert Pigot ("British Army officer")
• Kliment Voroshilov ("Marshal of the Soviet Union")
• Muhammad bin Qasim ("military commander")
• Gaspard II de Coligny ("military commander")
• Oliver Hazard Perry
• Hosni Mubarak
• Semyon Timoshenko ("Marshal of the Soviet Union")
• William D. Leahy ("United States Navy admiral")
• William H. Winder ("United States Army officer")
• John Underhill
• Oliver Leese ("British Army officer")
• Chiang Ching-kuo ("military leader")
• Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla
• Hap Arnold
• Prince Rupert of the Rhine ("military commander")
• Anton Denikin ("military commander")
• Kit Carson ("United States Army officer")
• Isaac Brock ("British Army officer")
• Chiang Wei-kuo
• Juan de Prado Malleza Portocarrero y Luna
• Maltby, Christopher Michael ("British Army officer")
• Alexander Patch ("United States Army general")
• James Abercrombie ("British Army officer")
• Richard Montgomery
• Kuzma Derevyanko ("Soviet general")
• Philip Skippon