military leader

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Mali's military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has taken over as defence minister after the officer who previously held the post was killed in a wave of sweeping surprise attacks.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

No one was more surprised than the king himself that a philosophically inclined monarch had become such an impressive military leader.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful military leader since the 1979 revolution and the architect of its shadowy expeditions around the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

"He was not just a military leader, but also a symbol who shouldered the responsibility of unifying the institution of the military, and who worked towards a national reconciliation," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

In his position as civil and military leader of Macondo he would have telegraphic conversations twice a week with Colonel Aureliano Buendía.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez