United States Army War College International Fellows Hall of Fame

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The US AWC International Fellows Hall of Fame [1] honors USAWC international graduates "who have attained, through military merit, the highest positions in their nation's armed forces, or who have held an equivalent position by rank or responsibility in a multinational organization." [2]

Commandant of USAWC DeWitt C. Smith is primarily responsible for the creation of the International Fellows Program’s (IFP) 1977. [3] From a start with six foreign students in 1978, the program now sustains over forty International Fellows (IFs) per year. Usually, only one IF per representative country per academic year participates in the program. [3] While the fellows program was established in 1978 and the first induction into the IF Hall of Fame took place in 1988. [4] Inductees are awarded in person at Carlisle Barracks. [1] Since its inception over 1,900 international fellows graduate from 130 countries have been part of the fellows program. [5]

List of IF Hall of Fame fellows

List of fellows
Fellow No.FlagCountryNameYearRef
Flag of Botswana.svgBotswana Louis Matshwenyego Fisher 1998
Flag of Norway.svgNorwayGEN Paal Frisvold 2005 [6]
Flag of Bangladesh.svgBangladeshLG Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury 2005 [6]
31Flag of Canada (Pantone).svgCanadaGEN Walter Natynczyk 2009 [4]
32Flag of Denmark.svgDenmarkMG Niels Bundsgaard2011 [7]
33Flag of India.svgIndiaGEN Vijay Kumar Singh 2011 [8]
Flag of India.svgIndiaGEN Bikram Singh 2013 [9]
43Flag of Hungary.svgHungaryGEN Tibor Benko 2013 [10]
48Flag of Chile.svgChileGEN Humberto Oviedo 2014 [11]
49Flag of Oman.svgOmanMG Matar Salim Al Balushi2014 [12]
50Flag of Korea (1899).svgKoreaGEN Seung Jo Jung 2014 [12]
51Flag of Uganda.svgUgandaGEN Edward Katumba Wamala 2014 [12]
52Flag of Denmark.svgDenmarkGEN Knud Bartel 2014 [12]
53Flag of the United Nations.svgUnited NationsMG Kristin Lund 2015 [5]
54Flag of Lithuania.svgLithuaniaMG Almantas Lieka2015 [13]
55Flag of Austria.svgAustriaGEN Othmar Commenda 2015 [5]
56Flag of Tunisia.svgTunisiaBG Ismail Fathalli 2015 [5]
57Flag of Romania.svgRomaniaGEN Nicolae Ciucă 2015 [5]
58Flag of Albania.svgAlbaniaMG Jeronim Bazo 2015 [5]
59Flag of Bulgaria.svgBulgariaMG Neyko Nenov 2016 [14]
60Flag of the Czech Republic.svgCzech RepublicMG Jan Gurnik2016 [5]
61Flag of Nepal.svgNepalGEN Rajendra Chhetri [15]
62Flag of Norway.svgNorwayGEN Odin Johannessen [5]
63Flag of Colombia.svgColombiaGEN Alberto José Mejía Ferrero 2017 [16]
64Flag of Estonia.svgEstoniaBG Indrek Sirel 2017 [17]
65Flag of Estonia.svgEstoniaBG Artur Tiganik 2017 [17]
66Flag of Georgia.svgGeorgiaMG Vladimer Chachibaia 2017 [5]
67Flag of Croatia.svgCroatiaGEN Damir Krstičević 2018 [18]
68Flag of the Republic of China.svgTaiwan/ROCGEN Chiu Kuo-cheng 2018 [19]
69Flag of Norway.svgNorwayMG Eirik Kristoffersen 2019 [20]
70Flag of Norway.svgNorwayMG Torgeir Gråtrud  [ no ]2019 [2]
71Flag of Malaysia.svgMalaysiaGEN Ahmad Hasbullah2020 [21]

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