Among the big names: two top Qaeda managers, Sheik Saeed al-Masri and Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, and one of its most feared field commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri.
One of the most successful field commanders of his age, he won a number of important victories over the forces of the Austrian Habsburgs.
Now he is one of the rebels' most prominent field commanders, his stature elevated in part by YouTube videos in which he is seen striding among the flaming wreckage of MIGs to stand over the bloodied remains of Syrian pilots still strapped to their parachutes.
But despite a gradually worsening military situation, unrelieved internal political tensions, continuing lack of manpower and armament, and skyrocketing inflation, he remained resolute in his determination to carry on the war, and Lee remained both his most valuable field commander and his most loyal personal supporter.
From 24 April to 5 May, he held a council of war attended by his nephew and most renowned field commander, Prince Rupert.
Aware that Burgoyne was also moving, he took some risks in July and sent aid north in the form of Major General Benedict Arnold, his most aggressive field commander, and Major General Benjamin Lincoln, a Massachusetts man noted for his influence with the New England militia.
The aircraft that American field commanders most clamour for is not the F-22 but helicopters and the Predator, an unmanned drone able to stay aloft for a day.
Both the French and the Chadians engaged in the fiercest fighting last month, inflicting heavy casualties on the insurgents, including one of the most violent al-Qaeda field commanders, Abou Zeid.
November 24, 1887 Berlin, Germany June 11 , 1973near Munich, Germany Erich von Manstein, original name Erich Von Lewinski (born Nov. 24, 1887, Berlin, Ger. died June 11, 1973, Irschenhausen, near Munich, W.Ger.) German field marshal who was perhaps the most talented German field commander in World War II.
Erich von Manstein, original name Erich Von Lewinski (born Nov. 24, 1887, Berlin, Ger. died June 11 , 1973 Irschenhausen, near Munich, W.Ger.) German field marshal who was perhaps the most talented German field commander in World War II.
