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

Brad Cooper has had Shabbat dinner with Israel’s military leader Eyal Zamir.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

And the US invaded Panama in 1989, and arrested the military leader Manuel Noriega.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

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