Leo Beulen (born 1960) was the

Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army The Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army (C-LAS, Dutch: ''Commandant Landstrijdkrachten'') is the executive commander of the Royal Netherlands Army and reports directly to the Chief of Defence. The Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army is stat ...

between 24 March 2016 until August 2019. Leo Beulen, a

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of Dutch army joined the Royal Military Academy,

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

in 1978 after graduated in 1982, he was commissioned as second lieutenant and posted 12 Armoured Anti-aircraft Artillery battery,

Nunspeet Nunspeet () is a municipality and town in the central Netherlands. It has been an agricultural site since prehistoric times. The municipality contains a number of villages, namely Hulshorst, Elspeet, and Vierhouten. Nunspeet has a vivid historica ...

as platoon commander. He continued in the Netherlands Defence College for Advanced Military Studies until 1993 was promoted to major and became the head of Operations Office, G3 (NL) Corps, he was also a chief assistant to the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff in 1995 before he proceeds for his senior staff course in

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, he was made lieutenant colonel in 1998 and teaches at the Netherlands Defence College. He also chaired the Allied Joint Operations

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and 25 Section Armoured Anti-aircraft Artillery as commander in 1999, although, he also served the

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after joining staff 1 Division Section G3 from were he returns and was posted to General Policy Division of the Army Staff, Netherlands in 2002, and was promoted to colonel in 2003. He became Commander of the Air Defence Artillery Command in 2005 from were he led the operation unit of Air Defence Artillery was moved to Air Defence Artillery Command,

Noord-Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the ...

, when he got promoted to

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, he was made the director of Joint Coordination Centre NATO,

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in 2009, also with that he head the J3 of ISAF HQ,

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and after returning, he was appointed as Operations director in the Defence Staff HQ by then as major general in 2012.

Commands

As major general, he was posted as deputy commander of 1 Division Germany/Netherlands Corps,

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in 2014. He became lieutenant general and was appointed to be Commander of the

Netherlands Army The Royal Netherlands Army ( nl, Koninklijke Landmacht) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the was raised – making the Dutch ...

on 24 March 2016.

Families

He is married to Annemiek Beulen and has three children.

References

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