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The [[The Sultan’s Armed Forces]] (SAF), under the supreme command of Sultan [[Qaboos bin Said]], are the armed forces of Oman.<ref>[http://www.omanet.om/english/government/defence.asp?cat=gov Defence], Ministry of Information, Sultanate of Oman, accessed 22 June 2010.</ref>
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The [[Sultan's Armed Forces]] (SAF), under the supreme command of Sultan [[Qaboos bin Said]], are the armed forces of Oman.<ref>[http://www.omanet.om/english/government/defence.asp?cat=gov Defence], Ministry of Information, Sultanate of Oman, accessed 22 June 2010.</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
==People==
===Commanders===
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===Commander, Sultan's Armed Forces (CSAF)===
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*[[David Smiley]] 1958-1961
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*[[Corran Purdon]] 1967-1970
 
*[[John Graham]] 1970-1972.<ref>[http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/mec/MEChandlists/GB165-0327-Graham-Collection.pdf John Graham collection (pdf)], Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford, accessed 22 June 2010.</ref>
 
*[[John Graham]] 1970-1972.<ref>[http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/mec/MEChandlists/GB165-0327-Graham-Collection.pdf John Graham collection (pdf)], Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford, accessed 22 June 2010.</ref>
 
*[[Timothy Creasey]] 1972-1975<ref>W.D. Flackes and Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, BlackStaff Press, 1989, p.107.</ref>
 
*[[Timothy Creasey]] 1972-1975<ref>W.D. Flackes and Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, BlackStaff Press, 1989, p.107.</ref>
 
*[[Ken Perkins]] 1975-1977<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6898541.ece Major-General Ken Perkins: Commander of the Sultan of Oman’s Armed Forces], Sunday Times, 1 November 2009.</ref>
 
*[[Ken Perkins]] 1975-1977<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6898541.ece Major-General Ken Perkins: Commander of the Sultan of Oman’s Armed Forces], Sunday Times, 1 November 2009.</ref>
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The position of CSAF was due to be abolished after Perkins' departure.<ref>John Peterson, Oman's insurgencies: the sultanate's struggle for supremacy, Saqi, 2007, p.426.</ref>
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===Chairman, Joint Staff===
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*[[Peter Thwaites]] 1977-1981
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===Chief of the Defence Staff===
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A new position created in 1981.<ref>John Peterson, Oman's insurgencies: the sultanate's struggle for supremacy, Saqi, 2007, p.426.</ref>
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*[[Timothy Creasey]] August 1981<ref>John Peterson, Oman's insurgencies: the sultanate's struggle for supremacy, Saqi, 2007, p.426.</ref>-
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*[[John Watts]] 1984-1987
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 13:39, 25 June 2010

The Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF), under the supreme command of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, are the armed forces of Oman.[1]

People

Commander, Sultan's Armed Forces (CSAF)

The position of CSAF was due to be abolished after Perkins' departure.[5]

Chairman, Joint Staff

Chief of the Defence Staff

A new position created in 1981.[6]

Notes

  1. Defence, Ministry of Information, Sultanate of Oman, accessed 22 June 2010.
  2. John Graham collection (pdf), Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford, accessed 22 June 2010.
  3. W.D. Flackes and Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, BlackStaff Press, 1989, p.107.
  4. Major-General Ken Perkins: Commander of the Sultan of Oman’s Armed Forces, Sunday Times, 1 November 2009.
  5. John Peterson, Oman's insurgencies: the sultanate's struggle for supremacy, Saqi, 2007, p.426.
  6. John Peterson, Oman's insurgencies: the sultanate's struggle for supremacy, Saqi, 2007, p.426.
  7. John Peterson, Oman's insurgencies: the sultanate's struggle for supremacy, Saqi, 2007, p.426.