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Arthur Percival
Arthur Ernest Percival (1887–1966), British Army lieutenant-general and General Officer Commanding Malaya, surrendered Singapore with over 85,000 troops to Yamashita on 15 February 1942; later historians treat him partly as a scapegoat.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish army officer and Tory statesman who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 and served as prime minister from 1828 to 1830.
Arun Shridhar Vaidya
Arun Shridhar Vaidya, also known as General Arun S. Vaidya, was an Indian Army general who planned Operation Blue Star and was assassinated in 1986.
Asaf Hamami (אסף חממי)
Asaf Hamami (אסף חממי), 1982–2023, IDF colonel commanding the Gaza Division's Southern Brigade; first officer to declare war on October 7, killed at Kibbutz Nirim, body held in Gaza until November 2025.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, retired Pakistani general, Chief of Army Staff 2007-2013 after heading ISI from 2004; led Operations Rah-i-Rast and Rah-i-Nijat, shifted army doctrine to counterinsurgency, received a three-year extension in 2010, succeeded by Raheel Sharif.
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور)
Asif Ghafoor (آصِف غفور) is a retired three-star Pakistan Army general, 20th Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (December 2016 to January 2020), later Lieutenant General, commissioned in 1988 in the artillery.
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر) (general)
Asim Munir (عاصم منیر), Pakistani field marshal, Chief of Army Staff since November 2022 and first Chief of Defence Forces; former DG of both ISI and Military Intelligence; elevated after the May 2025 India war.
Aslan Maskhadov
Aslan Maskhadov (Аслан Масхадов), Chechen separatist president elected in 1997 after serving as Soviet artillery colonel and Ichkeria chief of staff; signed Khasavyurt Accords, led resistance until killed by Russian forces in Tolstoy-Yurt, 8 March 2005.
Assimi Goïta
Assimi Goïta (born 1983) is Mali's army general and President of the Transition since June 2021, leader of the CNSP junta, author of the August 2020 and May 2021 coups, aligned with Russia's Wagner Group and Africa Corps.
August von Mackensen
August von Mackensen (1849-1945), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and WWI commander, broke the Russian front at Gorlice-Tarnow 1915, led Serbia and Romania campaigns; last WWI field marshal, the Last Hussar.
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1915-2006), Chilean general who led the 11 September 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and ruled Chile's military dictatorship until 1990; DINA/CNI repression, 1980 Constitution, defeated in the 1988 plebiscite, arrested in London 1998.
Austin S. Miller
Austin S. "Scott" Miller (born 1961) is a retired U.S. Army four-star general, Delta Force commander, Joint Special Operations Command leader, and final commander of NATO Resolute Support and U.S. Forces–Afghanistan (2018–2021), who relinquished command in Kabul on July 12, 2021.
Azhar Waqas
Azhar Waqas, PA-30624, is a Pakistan Army general officer, Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) recipient, who served as Director General Military Intelligence from January 2020 and as Director-General of Pakistan Rangers Sindh from September 2022.
Bajirao I
Bajirao I, Peshwa of the Maratha state 1720–1740 under Shahu, appointed at age 20; drove Maratha expansion into Malwa, Gujarat, and Bundelkhand, fought the Nizam and won at Bhopal in 1737.
Banastre Tarleton
Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), British cavalry commander of the Loyalist British Legion in the American Revolution's southern campaign; nicknamed "Bloody Ban" after the Waxhaws, defeated at Cowpens, later MP and author.
Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffrey, retired four-star U.S. Army general, commanded the 24th Infantry Division's left hook in Desert Storm, led U.S. Southern Command, and was Bill Clinton's drug czar (ONDCP director, 1996-2001), later an NBC News military analyst and consultant.
Basil al-Assad (باسل الأسد)
Basil al-Assad, the eldest son of Hafez al-Assad, was the expected heir apparent who died in 1994. He was also a medal-winning horseman and Syrian army major.
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American Revolutionary major general and hero of Ticonderoga, Valcour Island, and Saratoga, defected to the British in 1780 in the failed West Point plot, becoming America's synonym for traitor.
Beni Aharon (בני אהרון)
Beni Aharon (בני אהארוץ) is an IDF armored corps brigadier general who commanded the 401st Armored Brigade from 2022 to 2024 and has led Division 146 since 2025.
Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818–1893), Union major general, Massachusetts politician, and "Contraband Decision" author at Fort Monroe; military governor of New Orleans (General Order No. 28), Johnson impeachment manager, and 1884 Greenback presidential candidate.
Benjamin Cleveland
Benjamin Cleveland (1738–1806), also spelled Cleaveland, was a Patriot militia colonel of Wilkes County, North Carolina, a Whig leader at Kings Mountain, and a harsh suppressor of Loyalists who later moved to South Carolina.
Benjamin Grierson
Benjamin Henry Grierson was a Union Civil War general whose 1863 cavalry raid through Mississippi aided Grant's Vicksburg campaign; he later commanded the Buffalo Soldiers.
Benjamin Guinness II
Benjamin Guinness II, also known as Benjamin Lee Guinness, was an Irish-born British Army captain in the Royal Horse Guards, second son of the Dublin brewer Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness.
Benjamin McCulloch
Benjamin McCulloch (1811–1862), "Ol' Ben," Texas Ranger, San Jacinto veteran, Zachary Taylor's chief of scouts, U.S. marshal, and Confederate brigadier general killed at Pea Ridge on March 7, 1862.
Bento Gonçalves da Silva
Bento Gonçalves da Silva (1788–1847) was a Brazilian military officer and rancher who led the Farroupilha Revolution in Rio Grande do Sul and became the first president of the Rio-Grandense Republic.
Bernard Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), British field marshal; Eighth Army commander at El Alamein 1942, Allied ground forces commander in Normandy 1944, and NATO's first DSACEUR 1951-1958.
Bernardo O'Higgins
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (1778-1842), Chilean independence leader and first Supreme Director (1817-1823), victor with San Martín at Chacabuco and Maipú, proclaimed Chilean independence in 1818 and founded its early state institutions.
Bhawani Singh (भवानी सिंह)
Bhawani Singh (भवानी सिंह, 1931–2011), Brigadier Sawai Bhawani Singh, last titular Maharaja of Jaipur, was an Indian Army officer and Maha Vir Chakra recipient for the 1971 Chachro and Virawah raids in Sindh, later ambassador to Brunei.
Bill Stirling (British Army officer)
Bill Stirling, elder brother of SAS founder David Stirling, was a Scottish SOE officer who helped conceive the Special Air Service, raised 2 SAS in Algeria, and left its command in June 1944 in a dispute over the unit's use after D-Day.
Bipin Rawat (बिपिन रावत)
Bipin Rawat (बिपिन रावत), 1958–2021, Indian Army four-star general and India's first Chief of Defence Staff from December 2019; earlier Chief of Army Staff; championed theaterisation; died in a Mi-17 V5 crash near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.