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The Hellenic National Defence General Staff ( Greek: Γενικό Επιτελείο Εθνικής Άμυνας, abbr. ΓΕΕΘΑ) is the senior staff of the Hellenic Armed Forces. It was established in 1950, when the separate armed services ministries were consolidated into the Ministry of National Defence. Its role in peacetime was as a ...
Konstantinos Floros was born at Chalkida on 24 June 1961. In 1979–1983 he attended the Hellenic Army Academy, graduating as an infantry second lieutenant. [1] He then served as platoon leader in the Non Commissioned Officers Army Academy, and company commander in Samos Island. He entered the army special forces in 1986, serving successively ...
In December 1945, after Liberation, and again in 1948 and 1950, when the unified Ministry of National Defence was founded, the Army General Staff was reorganized. On 18 December 1968 the then-ruling military junta reorganized the Greek armed forces' command into a unified Armed Forces Headquarters. The Army General Staff was renamed as the Army ...
The Ministry of National Defence (Greek: Υπουργείο Εθνικής Άμυνας, abbreviated ΥΠΕΘΑ), is the civilian cabinet organisation responsible for managing the Hellenic Armed Forces, the leader of which is, according to the Constitution (Article 45), the President of the Republic but their administration is exercised only by the Prime Minister and the Government of Greece.
Field Marshal. Alexandros Papagos. 1883. 1955. Minister of Military Affairs (1935), Chief of the Army General Staff (1936–40), Commander-in-Chief of the Army (1940–41, 1949–50), Chief of the National Defense General Staff (1950–51), Prime Minister (1952–55) Lieutenant General. Leonidas Papagos.
The only Greek career officer to rise to the rank of Field Marshal, Papagos became the first Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff from 1950 until his resignation the following year. He then entered politics, founding the nationalist Greek Rally party and becoming the country's Prime Minister after his victory in the 1952 elections .
Alkiviadis Stefanis. General Alkiviadis Stefanis ( Greek: Αλκιβιάδης Στεφανής; born 7 October 1959) is a Greek politician, retired officer of the Greek Armed Forces. He served as Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff from 2017 to 2019. He served as a non-parliamentary Deputy Minister for National Defence in the government ...
The term Hellenic is the endogenous synonym for Greek. The Hellenic Army is the largest of the three branches of the Hellenic Armed Forces, also constituted by the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) and the Hellenic Navy (HN). The army is commanded by the chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (HAGS), which in turn is under the command of Hellenic ...