Khalid bin Sultan

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Khalid bin Sultan (1949-), eldest son of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan, attended the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and the US Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. He is also a graduate of the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.

After a lengthy tenure in different branches of Saudi Arabia's armed forces, Prince-General Khalid, and was named Commander of the Joint Arab Forces during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait the 1990-1991. Promoted to Field Marshall by his uncle, King Fahd, after the campaign, Prince Khalid retired, in 1991, to concentrate in business.

Returning to government service in January 2001, Prince Khalid was appointed the Assistant Defence Minister for Military Affairs.

[edit] See Also

  • General Norman Schwarzkopf , Led the Allied Forces with Prince Khalid during Gulf war.
  • Field Marshal Saleh Al-Muhaya , Led the Saudi Forces with Prince Khalid during Gulf war.
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