- Ariel Sharon
"' (also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק"' is a former Israeli Prime Minister and military leader whose political career was ended by a massive stroke that he suffered in early 2006. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though the powers of his office were exercised by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Sharon's stroke on 4 January2006. At that time, Sharon fell into a coma; as of July 2007, …
- Amir Peretz
Amir Peretz (born 9 March, 1952) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Israeli Labour Party, having left those positions in June of 2007. Peretz is the former chairman of the Histadrut trade union federation and defeated Shimon Peres in the primary elections for the Labour leadership in November 9, 2005. He led the Labour Party to a second place showing in the 2006 Israeli elections.
- Yitzhak Rabin
"'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords.
- Matan Vilnai
Matan Vilnai (born 20 May, 1944) is an Israeli politician and a former Major General in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He is currently Deputy Defense Minister.
- Richard Armitage
Richard Lee Armitage (born April 26, 1945) was the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005.
- Moshe Arens
Moshe Arens (born 27 December 1925 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is an Israeli politician. He was a member of the Likud party, and served as Minister of Defense three times. Arens immigrated to the United States with his family in 1939 and became an American citizen. As a youth, Arens became a leader in the Betar Zionist youth movement. In 1948, when Israel achieved its independence and was invaded by seven Arab armies, Arens immigrated to Israel and joined the Irgun forces, …
- Ali Hassan Al-Majid
Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (born 1941) is a former Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister and military commander. A first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, he became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns of deportations and mass killings against its Kurdish and Shi'ite populations. He was captured following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was charged with war crimes.
- Igor Sergeyev
Igor Dmitriyevich Sergeyev was the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation from May 22 of 1997 until March 28 of 2001. He was the first and (at the time of his death) only Marshal of the Russian Federation.
- Alexander Lebed
Alexander Ivanovich Lebed (April 20, 1950, Novocherkassk - April 28, 2002) was a Russian Lieutenant General and popular politician, who was killed in a Mi-8 helicopter crash. Alexander Lebed was the commander of the 106th Airborne Division from 1990 to 1991. Lebed had come to national attention after the Soviet Coup of 1991, in which a conspiracy of old-guard Communist hard-liners sought to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev's government and reverse his reforms.
- Efraim Sneh
Efraim Sneh (born 19 September 1944) is an Israeli politician and physician. He is a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and is the current Deputy Defense Minister. Born in Tel Aviv in 1944, Sneh is the son of Moshe Sneh, who was one of the heads of the Haganah. His father was elected to the first Knesset as a representative of Mapam, before defecting to Maki, the Israeli Communist Party. Sneh served in the Nahal infantry battalion from 1962 to 1964.
- Guadalupe Larriva
Guadalupe Larriva was an Ecuadorian politician. She was the head of the Ecuadorian Socialist Party-Broad Front (list 17), as well as the country's Defense Minister under President Rafael Correa. A former university professor, she was also the first female and the first civilian to hold the post. Larriva was killed near Manta Air Base in a helicopter crash on January 24 2007 20:23h Ecuadorian time, …
- Samuel Schmid
Samuel Schmid (born January 8, 1947) has been a member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2000. He is the head Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (the Swiss defense minister). He was elected to the Federal Council on December 6, 2000. He is a member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC). During his time in office he has held the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports.
- Gediminas Kirkilas
Gediminas Kirkilas is the current Prime Minister of Lithuania. He was appointed on July 4 2006 after Zigmantas Balčytis, the provisional Prime Minister, failed to gather the required support from the Seimas. Kirkilas managed to get the necessary support from the Seimas on July 4 2006.
- Vladimir Shamanov
Vladimir Shamanov was a Major General in the Russian Army and former governor of the Ulyanovsk region of Russian Federation. Shamanov has been criticized by human rights groups for failing to control his troops in military actions during the Second Chechen War. Shamanov was removed from duty in January 2000, quoting health reasons, and for a period he was a civilian politician. As for 2007, General-Lieutenant Vladimir Shamanov is counselor to Russia's defense minister, …
- Marc Perrin de Brichambaut
Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (born 29 October 1948) is a French career judge and diplomat, and the current Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Marc Perrin de Brichambaut was born in Rabat, Morocco. He graduated from France's Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Paris in 1974. Prior to his appointment as OSCE Secretary General in June 2005, …
- Mahmoud Hammoud
Mahmoud Hammoud (born 1935) is a Lebanese politician and a retired career diplomat. Hammoud is a Shiite Muslim. He was born in Kafarkila, Marjayoun district, southern Lebanon. He served as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (1978-1983), West Germany (1983-1985), the Soviet Union and Finland (1986-1990), and the United Kingdom (1990-1999). During this time he became part of the faction which supported Syrian influence in Lebanon.
- Marcel Ranjeva
Marcel Ranjeva (born 1944) is a politician from Madagascar. He was the defense minister in the government of President Didier Ratsiraka, when in March 2002, he resigned and defected to support Marc Ravalomanana, the presidential candidate who claimed to have won the December 2001 presidential election. Ravalomanana appointed Ranjeva as foreign minister in May 2002, and he has been the foreign minister since then.
- Uzi Narkiss
Uzi Narkiss (Jerusalem, 6 January 1925 - Jerusalem, 17 December 1997), was an Israeli soldier and general, who served as commander of the Israel Defense Forces units in the Central Region during the Six Day War. Narkiss appears in the famous photograph of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan flanked by Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin and himself, taken in the Old City of Jerusalem shortly after its capture from Jordanian forces in the 1967 Six Day War.
- Nilda Garré
Nilda Garré, a former leftist militant, is the current defense minister of Argentina. She is the first woman to hold this position in that country, replacing José Pampuro in 2005. Garré was born in San Telmo Buenos Aires in 1945. She was elected a deputy in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1973 for the "Frente Justicialista de la Liberación", a militant Peronist movement, serving until the dissolution of Congress in 1976.
- Dmitry Yazov
Dmitri Timofeyevich Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1979-1980, Yazov was a commander of the Central Army Group. He held the post of Soviet Defense Minister from May 1987. In 1987-1990, Yazov was a candidate for membership in Politburo. During the August Coup of 1991, Yazov was a member of the State Emergency Committee, for which he was prosecuted and acquitted in 1994.
- Sydney Sekeramayi
Doctor Sydney Tigere Sekeramayi has served as the Defense Minister of Zimbabwe since 2005. During the Rhodesian Bush War he served as the Zimbabwe African National Union's representative in Sweden. After the war he served as the Minister of National Security, Deputy Secretary of Health Minister for National Security, and Minister for Transport and Welfare. In Rhodesia his school expelled him.
- Adnan Badran
Adnan Badran is a Jordanian scientist, academic and politician. He was the prime minister of Jordan from April 7, 2005 to November 28, 2005.
- Mostafa Chamran
Mostafa Chamran Savei (1932 - 21 June 1981) was an Iranian defense minister and member of parliament, as well as commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran-Iraq war.
- Manfred Wörner
Manfred Wörner was a German politician and diplomat. He served as the defense minister of West Germany between 1982 and 1988. He then served as the Secretary General of NATO from 1988 to 1994. His term as Secretary General saw the end of the Cold War and the German reunification. Whilst serving in that position, he was diagnosed with cancer, but, in spite of his illness, continued serving until his final days.
- Michel Debré
Michel Debré was a French politician. Debré was born in Paris. An associate of Charles de Gaulle, he served under the General as Minister of Justice (1958-1959), Prime Minister (1959 to 1962), Minister of Economics (1966-1968) and Foreign Minister (1968 to 1969), and under his successor Georges Pompidou as Defense Minister (1969-1973). Michel Debré oversaw the drafting of the constitution of the French Fifth Republic, also called the Constitution of 1958.
- Jules Moch
Jules Salvador Moch, a French politician, was born in Paris on March 15, 1893 and died on August 1, 1985 in Cabris (Alpes-Maritimes). An engineer ("polytechnicien") who took part in the X-Crise Group, he was a socialist member of Parliament for Drôme and then Hérault from 1928 to 1936 and from 1937 to 1940. Under-secretary of State in prime minister Léon Blum's office (1937), he became Minister of Public Works in 1938. He rallied to de Gaulle in 1942.
- Peng Ming-Min
Peng Ming-min(Taiwanese: Phêⁿ Bêng-bín; 彭明敏, pinyin: Péng Míngmǐn) (born August 15, 1923) is a noted Taiwan independence activist and politician.
- Ferenc Münnich
Ferenc Münnich was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1958 to 1961. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI, and fought in the Eastern front. He was captured in 1915, then deported to a lager in Tomsk, Siberia. In 1918, he was freed and returned to Hungary. He participated in the government of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic.
- Hans Georg Jacob Stang
Hans Georg Jacob Stang (February 17, 1858- September 11, 1907) was the Norwegian Minister of Defense 1900-1902 and 1902-1903.
- Pavle Bulatović
Pavle Bulatović was Yugoslavia's foreign minister from 1994 and later defense minister, was shot dead in Belgrade on the evening of February 7, 2000. The shooting took place at a restaurant in the suburb Banjica and Bulatovic later died at a military hospital. The killing happened less than a month after the assassination of Željko Ražnatović ("Arkan"), and a connection between the two events were immediately suspected.
- Pierre Osho
Pierre Osho is a former defense minister of Benin. He held that position from May 1998 to January 2006, when he resigned. He was previously the foreign minister from April 1996 to May 1998. Osho submitted his resignation to President Mathieu Kérékou on January 11, 2006, and was succeeded as defense minister by Martin Dohou Azonhiho later in the month.
- Sardar Swaran Singh
Sardar Swaran Singh (August 19, 1907 - October 30, 1994) was an Indian politician. He served as India's foreign minister from 1964 to 1966, and again from 1970 to 1974. He also served as the Indian defense minister from 1966 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1975. He was also president of the National Congress in 1977, and from 1978 to 1979.
- Arafan Camara
General Arafan Camara is a former politician and military official in Guinea. Camara was named Defense Minister on 28 March 2007 after mass protests forced a new government. He was dismissed as minister on 12 May 2007 after soldiers rioted concerning better working conditions and the re-instatement of sacked military leaders. He was replaced by retired Army General Bailo Diallo.
- Lena Hjelm-Wallén
Lena Hjelm-Wallen is a Swedish social democratic politician. She was born in Sala, Sweden. She served as foreign minister from 1994 to 1998 and then became deputy prime minister. In September 2002 she became defence minister but left this position one month later.
- Martin Špegelj
Martin Špegelj was the first Defense Minister of Croatia and, later, chief of staff of the newborn Croatian army and inspector-general of the army. His efforts to organize and equip the army from scratch were seen as instrumental in helping Croatia survive the first year of the Croatian War of Independence. Partly due to disagreements with president Franjo Tuđman, he retired in 1992, after the war froze with the permanent ceasefire at the end of 1991.
- Jaak Jõerüüt
Jaak Jõerüüt is an Estonian writer and politician. He was the defense minister of Estonia from November 2004 to October 10, 2005. He was appointed to that position in November 2004 in Juhan Parts's government. When Parts resigned in April 2005, Jaak Jõerüüt was one of the few ministers retained in Andrus Ansip's government. Jõerüüt was also acting foreign minister of Estonia for a few days in February 2005.
- Walther von Lüttwitz
Walther von Lüttwitz was a German general known for his involvement in the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch. Von Lüttwitz was born in Bodland near Kreuzburg in Upper Silesia. During World War I, von Lüttwitz held several high military ranks. After the armistice and the German Revolution in 1918, the "Rat der Volksbeauftragten", the provisional German government, appointed him commander-in-chief of the Reichswehr, the German military, in Berlin and the vicinity.
- Davis Katsonga
Davis Chester Katsonga (born 6 August 1955) is the defense minister of Malawi. He gained that position on 1 June 2006 during a cabinet reshuffle. He was the foreign minister from early in 2005 until June 2006. Previously he was the minister of natural resources from June 2004 until early 2005, and before that he was the parliament speaker. He is a member of the Malawian parliament, elected as part of the United Democratic Front.
- Óscar Sousa
Óscar Sousa is the defense minister and interior minister of São Tomé and Príncipe. He gained those positions on 9 August 2003. He also served as acting foreign minister for two weeks in March 2004, and again from January 2006 to April 2006.
- Vlado Bučkovski
Vlado Bučkovski is a former prime minister of the Republic of Macedonia, elected by parliament on December 15 2004. He was previously the defense minister of Macedonia from May 2001 to November 2001 and from November 2002 to December 2004. He is the current president of the SDSM.