military leader

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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

Phelan is the latest high-ranking military leader to leave the administration in recent months.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 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

In 1989, the George HW Bush administration removed Panama's military leader Manuel Noriega and brought him to the US to face drug trafficking charges.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

He understood that in spite of his present title of civil and military leader of the town, Don Apolinar Moscote was once more a figurehead.

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