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A commander-in-chief or supreme commander (supreme commander-in-chief) is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch. As a technical term, it refers to military competencies that reside in a country's executive leadership, a head of state , head of government , or other designated government ...
"El Jefe", a less-common nickname for former Cuban President Fidel Castro (deriving from his title as Comandante en Jefe or "Commander-in-Chief" of Cuban Armed Forces); El Hefe (born 1965), guitar player for the punk band NOFX, who derives his nickname from El Jefe
CMSAF – Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (USAF E-9 – Senior Enlisted Member) CO – Commanding Officer; COA – Course of Action; COB – Chief Of the Boat (Chief Petty Officer in charge of the Boat usually a Master Chief (USN Submariner Terminology)) CoB – Close of Business (End of the duty day) COCOM – Combatant Commander
The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...
Stratarches (Greek: Στρατάρχης), meaning Ruler of the Army in Greek, is a title for senior military commanders dating back to classical antiquity, in the sense of "commander-in-chief". In modern Greek usage, it has been used to translate the rank of field marshal.
In the first Trump term, some top officials, such as his second national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, influenced Trump to make sensible decisions, such as reversing Trump’s ...
Proposed insignia of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (only held by Joseph Stalin). Generalissimo [1] (/ ˌ dʒ ɛ n (ə) r ə ˈ l ɪ s ɪ m oʊ / JEN-(ə-)rə-LIS-ih-moh), also generalissimus, is a military rank of the highest degree, superior to field marshal and other five-star ranks in the states where they are used.
If the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the Head of State are reunited in the same person, they are promoted to the permanent military rank of Captain General (Spanish: capitán general). It has only happened three times in Chile's history ( Bernardo O'Higgins , Ramón Freire and Augusto Pinochet ).