The Netherlands Armed Forces are the military forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The armed forces consist of four service branches:the Royal Netherlands Navy,the Royal Netherlands Army,the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. The service branches are supplemented by various joint support organizations. In addition,local conscript forces exist on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao. These operate under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Netherlands Marine Corps. The armed forces are part of the Ministry of Defence.
Ton van Loon is a commander from the Netherlands. He is a Lieutenant General employed by NATO who took control of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),Regional Command South (RC-S) on November 1,2006,until May 1,2007. From April 13,2010,until September 25,2013,he commanded I. German/Dutch Corps. He is married and has two children.
General Sir Nicholas Ralph Parker,is a former British Army officer who served as Commander Land Forces until December 2012.
Lieutenant General Jonathan David "Jacko" Page,is a retired senior British Army officer.
Petrus Johannes Mathias "Peter" van Uhm is a retired Royal Netherlands Army general. He served as Chief of Defence of the Armed forces of the Netherlands from 17 April 2008 until 28 June 2012. He previously served as the Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army from 5 September 2005 until 13 March 2008.
General Tissa Indraka Weeratunga,VSV was a Sri Lankan general. He was the former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army and the first General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Joint Operations Headquarters (JOH),he was later Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Canada from 1986 till 1990.
Major General Gammanpila Arachchige Chandrasiri,RWP,USP,ndc,psc,SLAC was a Sri Lankan senior army general and a provincial governor. He is the Governor of Northern Province. He was the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna;General Officer Commanding,52 Division;,Director General - General Staff,Joint Operations Headquarters;Brigade Commander Armoured Brigade,and Commander,Area Headquarters Mannar.
Volker Wieker is the former Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr,the German armed forces,and a general of the German Army. Trained as an artillery officer,Wieker served in every major foreign Bundeswehr deployment since 1996,including Bosnia,Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Lieutenant General William Alexander Milroy CM,DSO,CD was the Commander,Mobile Command of the Canadian Forces and later Assistant Deputy Minister of Defence,Personnel.
Robert Antonius Cornelis "Rob" Bertholee is a retired lieutenant general of the Royal Netherlands Army who served the head of the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) from 2011 to 2018. He previously was Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army from 2008 to 2011. Born in Haarlem,Bertholee is married and has one daughter.
The Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army is the highest-ranking officer of the Royal Netherlands Army and reports directly to the Chief of Defence. The Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army is statutorily a three-star general. The current C-LAS is Lieutenant General Jan Swillens.
General Sir Richard Lawson Barrons,is a retired British Army officer. He was Commander Joint Forces Command from April 2013 until his retirement in April 2016.
Lieutenant General Sir James Jeffrey Corfield Bucknall,is a retired British Army officer and former Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.
Vice admiral Matthieu Borsboom is a retired Royal Netherlands Navy officer whos served as the 3rd Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy and Admiral Benelux,and has served with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Lieutenant General Richard Rossmanith is a German Army officer and currently Commander of the Multinational Joint Headquarters Ulm in Ulm,Germany.
Major General Y. Balaretnarajah,VSV,USP,ndc is a retired Sri Lankan army officer. He had served as Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army,Commandant of the Volunteer Force and Commander - Jaffna Security Forces. He has commanded the 1 Division,Armoured Brigade,21 Brigade and 24 Brigade.
Robert Peter Bauer is an officer of the Royal Netherlands Navy who has been serving as Chair of the NATO Military Committee since June 2021,succeeding Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach of the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom. He previously served as the Chief of Defence from October 2017 to April 2021,and as the Vice Chief of Defence of the Netherlands of the from 1 September 2015 to 13 July 2017. Bauer was also involved in counter-terrorist and anti-piracy operations in the Mediterranean Sea,and in the Horn of Africa.
Onno Eichelsheim is a general in the Royal Netherlands Air Force serving as Chief of Defence of the Netherlands Armed Forces since 15 April 2021. Prior to his post,he served as the Vice Chief of Defence from 1 July 2019 to 8 March 2021.
Leo Beulen is a retired Dutch Lieutenant-general,who served as 4th Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army between 24 March 2016 until his retirement in 2019.
Lieutenant general Jan Renger (Jan) Swillens is a Royal Netherlands Army officer and Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army since 2024.
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