Vakhtang Kapanadze (Georgian: ვახტანგ კაპანაძე) (born August 17, 1960) is a Georgian reserve brigadier general who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces from August 2004 to February 2005.
Kapanadze graduated from the Faculty of Geography and Geology, Tbilisi State University, in 1983. He then studied at Georgia's Academy of Interior and has also been trained at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, National Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and U.S. Army War College. A veteran of the civil wars of the early 1990s, Kapanadze commanded a Georgian peacekeeping battalion in South Ossetia in 2004 and served as the Chief of the General Staff from August 2004 to February 2005.[1] In 2005, he briefly served as a military aide to the President of Georgia, and was then employed as a special envoy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
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| Preceded by Givi Iukuridze |
Chief of General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces 2004 – 2005 |
Succeeded by Levan Nikoleishvili |