Hellenic National Defense General Staff
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[edit] Chief / Hellenic National Defense General Staff
The Chief / Hellenic National Defense General Staff conducts the HNDGS (Hellenic National Defence General Staff) and is the main adviser to the Governmental Council on Foreign Policy and National Defence and to the Minister of Defence on military issues. Through the Chiefs of General Staffs, he carries out the operational commanding of the Joint Headquarters and the units that come under them, as well as the rest forces, when it comes to the issues of operation plans implementation and the Crises management System implementation, conduction of operations outside the national territory and participation of the Armed Forces in the confrontation of special situations during peace time.
He constructs the National Military Strategy after taking into consideration the suggestions of the General Staffs of the Armed Forces Services and according to the directions of the Ministry of Defence he manages and proposes the priority of the armament programs and suggests the general policy directions and priorities on every operational objective.
[edit] Past and present Chiefs of HNDGS
| Period | Rank | Name and Surname |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-present | General | Dimitrios Grapsas |
| 2005-2007 | Admiral | Panagiotis Chinofotis |
| 2002-2005 | General | Georgios Antonakopoulos |
| 1999-2002 | General | Manousos Paragioudakis |
| 1996-1999 | General | Athanasios Tzoganis |
| 1993-1996 | Admiral | Christos Lymperis |
| 1993 | General | Dimitrios Skarvelis |
| 1990-1993 | General | Ioannis Veryvakis |
| 1989-1990 | General | Stamatis Vellidis |
| 1984-1989 | General | Nikolaos Kouris |
| 1982-1984 | Admiral | Theodoros Ntegiannis |
| 1980-1982 | General | Agamemnon Gkratsios |
| 1976-1980 | General | Ioannis Ntavos |
