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Chief Of General Staff (Georgia)
The Chief of General Staff of Georgian Defense Forces ( ka, საქართველოს თავდაცვის ძალების გენერალური შტაბის უფროსი, tr) is a high-ranking officer in the military of Georgia, who heads the General Staff of the Defense Forces of Georgia and is an ex officio Deputy Chief of the Defense Forces. The Chief is appointed by the Minister of Defense and reports to the Minister and Chief of Defense Forces. Overview The Chief of General Staff exercises overall leadership of the General Staff and directs its day-to-day activities. The Chief is responsible for the proper execution of the tasks saddled on the General Staff, supervises planning of military operations, oversees coordination among the staffs of various units of the Defense Forces, and performs other functions as defined by the military law. The Chief of General Staff is also a Deputy Chief of Defense Forces. They are appointed, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joni Tatunashvili
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Zurab Meparishvili
Zurab Meparishvili ( ka, ზურაბ მეფარიშვილი; born 25 August 1934) is a retired Georgian general who served as the Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from June 1996 to May 1998. A Batumi native, Meparishvili was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1996 and to that of lieutenant-general in 1997. Meparishvili served as the Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from June 1996 until being relieved by the new Defense Minister David Tevzadze David Tevzadze ( ka, დავით თევზაძე) (born 30 January 1949) is a retired Georgian lieutenant general who was the country’s Minister of Defense from April 1998 to February 2004. Education and academic career Born in Sukhu ... of his duties in May 1998. He was also a deputy defense minister under Tevzadze's predecessor, Vardiko Nadibaidze, for the duration of whose absence on medical leave he was an acting minister in 1997. In 1998, he was involved in talk wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgi Matiashvili
Giorgi Matiashvili ( ka, გიორგი მათიაშვილი; born 18 December 1977) is a Georgian major general and the incumbent Chief of Georgian Defense Forces, appointed on 1 July 2020. Born in the town of Gardabani, Matiashvili graduated from the United Military Academy of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia in 1999. He served as Deputy Commander of the East Command of the Land Forces from 2016 to 2018 and Commander of the West Command of Defense Forces from 2016 to 2018. In December 2019, he became Deputy Chief of Defense Forces and Chief of the General Staff. On 1 July 2020, he succeeded Lt-Gen Vladimer Chachibaia Vladimer Chachibaia ( ka, ვლადიმერ ჩაჩიბაია) (born 4 November 1971) is a Georgian lieutenant general (2019) and former Chief of Georgian Defense Forces from 20 December 2018 to 1 July 2020, the first to be appoin ... as Chief of Georgian Defense Forces. His awards include the Order of Honor (2012) and that of Vakht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaza Chkhaidze
Zaza Chkhaidze ( ka, ზაზა ჩხაიძე; born 25 October 1974) is a Georgian major general (2019), who has served as Deputy Chief of Georgian Defense Forces since 20 December 2018. He also was Chief of General Staff of Georgian Defense Forces from 20 December 2018 to 27 December 2019. Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, in 1974, Zaza Chkhaidze graduated from the United Military Academy of the Georgian Ministry of Defense in 1998 and joined the Georgian Armed Forces. He had further training as an officer at the National Defense Academy of Georgia in 2011 as well as abroad, including the United States Army War College in 2015–2016. In 1999, he was appointed to the Georgian Special Forces The Georgian Special Operations Forces (GSOF) ( ka, სპეციალური ოპერაციების ძალები) are the special operations forces component of the Defense Forces of Georgia. They have been established to c ..., wherein he became a brigade command ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irakli Dzneladze
Irakli Dzneladze ( ka, ირაკლი ძნელაძე) (born May 10, 1968) is a Georgian Brigadier General (2019) and the Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from December 4, 2012, to November 22, 2013. Education Dzneladze graduated from the Georgian Technical University with a degree in Machine Building Industry in 1992 and from the Joint Military Academy of Defense Ministry of Georgia in 1999. He received further military training in Germany in 1998 and 2000 and in the United States in 2009.Irakli Dzneladze . Ministry of Defense of Georgia. Accessed December 8, 2012. Career Dzneladze has been employed at various departments of the |
Giorgi Kalandadze
Giorgi Kalandadze ( ka, გიორგი კალანდაძე) (born June 24, 1980) is a retired Georgian Brigadier General who was the Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from October 8, 2012 to November 11, 2012. Career Kalandadze studied at the Cadets' Corps of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia from 1995 to 1997 and at the United Military Academy of the Ministry of Defense from 1997 to 2001. He received further training in the United States in 2005 and Estonia in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he was the commander of the 4th Infantry Brigade, which suffered the heaviest casualties of all Georgian military units in the 2008 South Ossetia War with Russia. In 2009 Kalandadze was promoted to the position of deputy commander of the Georgian Land Forces and became first deputy chief of joint staff. Simultaneously, from 2010 to 2011, he served as acting commander of the land forces. In October 2012, President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili appointed him Chief of Joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devi Chankotadze
Devi Chankotadze (Georgian: დევი ჭანკოტაძე, born on September 1, 1961) is a Georgian military leader and politician who served as Georgia's Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces in 2008-2012, and has served as a member of the Parliament since 2020. He carries the rank of Lieutenant General. Starting his military career during the Soviet Union, he joined a volunteer militia based in Tbilisi in 1990 as Soviet forces began to disintegrate, before becoming a member of the newly-formed National Guard. With several conflicts ravaging Georgia in the early 1990s, he became head of the National Guard's Artillery Regiment and took part in the wars in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and the civil conflict that opposed ousted president Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Eduard Shevardnadze. In 2000, he became First Deputy Chief of Staff and served while Georgia took part in the US-led invasion of Iraq and during the Pankisi Gorge crisis. After a brief departure from servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimer Chachibaia
Vladimer Chachibaia ( ka, ვლადიმერ ჩაჩიბაია) (born 4 November 1971) is a Georgian lieutenant general (2019) and former Chief of Georgian Defense Forces from 20 December 2018 to 1 July 2020, the first to be appointed in this position. His previous top commanding positions included being the Chief of Joint Staff (4 November 2008 – 5 March 2009) and Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces (22 November 2016 – 20 December 2018). Education and early career Chachibaia was a private in the Soviet Air Forces from 1989 until 1991, when he joined the newly established National Guard of Georgia as a NCO. He commanded a National Guard platoon in the Georgian Civil War of 1992-1993 and continued his service in the Georgian army as a reconnaissance and special task force officer. He studied at the United Military Academy in Tbilisi, Georgia from 1993 to 1994 and attended several courses of military training in the United States, including at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaza Gogava
Zaza Gogava ( ka, ზაზა გოგავა; born July 14, 1971) is a Georgian Major General. He served as a Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Georgia from November 2006 to November 2008 and the chief of Border Police from November 2008 to July 2012. Gogava served his compulsory military service in the Soviet Army motorized rifle units from 1989 to 1990. He was one of the first batch of Georgian conscripts to defect from the Soviet forces. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Technical University in 1994 and began his career in the special task group "Omega" within Georgia's security services in 1995. He has since served in various counter-terrorist units and special forces subdivisions, and was further trained in the United States between 1995 and 2002. Gogava was placed in command of the Counter-terrorism Division of Special Operations Center in 2003 and the élite Police Special Tasks Division named after General G. Gulua in 2004. He was appointed Commander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levan Nikoleishvili
Levan Nikoleishvili ( ka, ლევან ნიკოლეიშვილი, born 1967) is a retired Georgian colonel who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from February 2005 to November 2006. He then served as a deputy defense minister until his resignation in August 2007. '' Civil Georgia
''Civil Georgia'' ( ka, სივილ ჯორჯია) is a Tbilisi-based free daily news website run by Georgian NGO UN Association of Georgia. It is supported by USAID, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Swiss Agency for Development and Coope ... ''. August 24, 2007
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Vakhtang Kapanadze
Vakhtang Kapanadze ( ka, ვახტანგ კაპანაძე) (born 17 August 1960) is a Georgian major general who was Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from 22 November 2013 to 22 November 2016. He held the same command from August 2004 to February 2005. Prior he was in charge of the Georgian peacekeeping battalion deployed in South Ossetia before the war broke out. Career Kapanadze graduated from the Faculty of Geography and Geology, Tbilisi State University, in 1983. He then studied at Georgia's Academy of Interior and has also been trained at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, National Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and U.S. Army War College. A veteran of the civil wars of the early 1990s, Kapanadze commanded a Georgian peacekeeping battalion in South Ossetia in 2004 and served as the Chief of the General Staff from August 2004 to February 2005. In 2005, he briefly served as a military aide to the President of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Givi Iukuridze
Givi Iukuridze ( ka, გივი იუკურიძე) (born 1956) is a retired Georgian major general who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from February to August 2004. Prior to his appointment in the General Staff in February 2004, Iukuridze served as the head of the Main Military Inspectorate. He was dismissed as the Chief of the General Staff soon after the renewed clashes with separatists in South Ossetia. Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia, said that Russia-educated Iukuridze could no more head the military which was adopting NATO standards. According to the Georgian media speculations, the deaths of 16 Georgian servicemen in South Ossetia was the real reason of Iukuridze's dismissal. Afterwards, Iukurdze was a military attaché to Russia. |
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