![]() ![]() Questions and comments about the role of Commander-in-Chief in Australia and the US kept popping up. The CGS is a member of the Defence Council and the Army Board, the Armed Forces Committee, the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Senior Appointments Committee. We had a huge social media response last week to our comparative article about the separation of powers in Australia and the US. The Secretary of Defense is the principal defense policy. The CGS reports to the Chief of the Defence Staff ( CDS) and, as a Service COS, has a right of direct access to the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister. The President of the United States of America is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Generating military capability from an integrated Army (Regular and Reserve) and for maintaining the fighting effectiveness, efficiency and morale of the Service. The Chief of the General Staff ( CGS) is the professional head of the Army, with responsibility for developing and General Sanders enjoys cycling, all forms of skiing, shooting and whisky. He speaks French and Norwegian, colloquial Spanish and can tell when he is being insulted in Arabic, Pashtun, Dari, Albanian and Serbo-Croat. He is Colonel Commandant of The Rifles and the Honourable Artillery Company, and President of the Armed Forces Winter Sports Association. He became Chief of the General Staff in June 2022. He was promoted to General in May 2019 and commanded UK Strategic Command until May 2022. His higher command appointments were 20 Armoured Brigade, the 3rd (UK) Division and the Field Army. ![]() He has been a member of the Directing Staff at the Joint Staff College, Pol/Mil adviser for the Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq in 2003-4, Colonel Army Strategy, Chief of Defence Staff’s Liaison Officer to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) in the MOD. His staff appointments have been in operational and strategic roles. He has commanded on operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Born in Tidworth Garrison military hospital and raised in Norway, Gibraltar and Iraq, General Sir Patrick Sanders was commissioned in 1986 and spent his early service as an Infantry Officer in The Royal Green Jackets in Germany, Norway and the UK. ![]()
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