Before he was elected president, Santos served as defense minister under his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe.
After retiring as Defense Minister in 2007, he emerged as an opposition leader, publicly braking with Chavez.
As defense minister, the commission ruled, he should have done more to prevent the Phalangists from killing those Palestinians.
As Defense Minister, Raul has been deeply involved in the economy because the Cuban military is a major economic player in Cuba.
Both Netanyahu and Livni have promised to form broad-based coalitions, most likely with Barak continuing to serve as defense minister.
And as Defense Minister Ehud Barak noted, Israel's neighbors should beware.
The general's replacements--respected academic Juwono Sudarsono as Defense Minister and a Navy admiral as armed forces commander--reduce the army's dominance of the military as a whole without slighting its pride.
Professor GERALD STEINBERG (Bar Ilan University): There's a lot of criticism of Peretz as defense minister not only with no military capability but making grandiose speeches about capabilities about mission or war aims that just couldn't be met.
For instance, Ahmadinejad just appointed Ahmad Vahidi, the suspected mastermind of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia where 19 US servicemen and women were murdered to serve as defense minister.
And of course, without effective security forces, the prime minister and the interior minister as well as the defense minister will not have instruments to control the security.
As for Defense Minister Ehud Barak, as a member of the Olmert government, his main personal failure has been his inability to convince the Pentagon to approve Israel's requests to purchase refueling jets and bunker buster bomb kits, and to permit Israeli jets to fly over Iraqi airspace.
The retrospective included a fawning five-page interview with Defense Minister Ehud Barak who ordered the withdrawal during his tenure as prime minister and defense minister.
This past March the Swiss daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung reported that Iranian defector Ali Reza Asghari, who before his March 2007 defection to the US served as a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards and as deputy defense minister, divulged that Iran paid for the North Korean facility.
After returning to Chile, Bachelet became a pediatrician and then entered politics, serving as minister of health and as minister of defense before winning the presidency.
His appointment later as Minister of Defense confirms that the Bolivarian leadership will provide continuity to the Bolivarian revolution regardless of an opposition victory in the upcoming election.
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As minister of defense in 1982, Sharon orchestrated Israel's invasion of Lebanon, a military operation that killed hundreds of Lebanese civilians as Israeli forces sought to wipe out Palestine Liberation Organization fighters in the region.
One has to wonder what possessed Prime Minister Obuchi Keizo to name him to such a potentially sensitive post as parliamentary vice minister of the Defense Agency.
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"We joined that coalition since the country was under attack, now we are more useful as the opposition, " Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski told AP.
For his failure, Barak has been rewarded by his Labor Party, which elected him its new chairman on the basis of his vast "experience, " and by the media which has embraced him as a "professional" defense minister.
There are no more French hostages at the plant as far as French authorities can tell, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Saturday.
Papandreou picked outgoing Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos as new finance minister, jettisoning George Papaconstantinou, architect of a belt-tightening program that has stoked violent unrest and a revolt in his Socialist Party.
The monthlong French offensive has killed "hundreds" of Islamist fighters in Mali, the French defense minister said this week, as his troops prepared to start withdrawing.
But after Lee balked, Chen named respected Defense Minister Tang Fei, 68, as his PM.
On the one hand, it has Defense Minister Ehud Barak calling for business as usual.
Perhaps the most contentious aspect of the case came when the defense tried to call the prime minister as a witness.
In 1994, Algerian Defense Minister Liamine Zeroual was sworn in as president.
There, Xi studied chemical engineering and went on to serve as a personal secretary to the then-Minister of Defense Geng Biao.
War is unpredictable as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak seem to have forgotten from their safe vantage points.
If true, that would rule out an in-flight explosion as the cause of the crash of Air France Flight 447, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim told reporters.
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The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
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