In the United States, most chairmen of the Joint Chiefs have been combat veterans - though Admiral Mullen, the current chair, doesn't appear to have served in direct combat, his predecessor General Pace was a Vietnam veteran. So, too, were General Shelton, Shalikashvili, and Powell; earlier chairmen were Korean or World War 2 veterans.
If you mean Defense Secretaries, those have tended to be politicians rather than soldiers of late. Those a number of them have some military service, the last I can find with actual combat experience is Caspar Weinberger, Reagan's first SecDef, who served in World War 2.
2007-11-18 18:43:35
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