COMMANDER // 1942–2011
Muammar Gaddafi
Lifespan
1942 – 2011
Active service 1980–2011 — 11 battles across 3 wars; first command at age 38.
Profile
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebel forces in 2011 during the First Libyan Civil War. He came to power through a bloodless military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977, Secretary General of the General People's Congress from 1977 to 1979, and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1979 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.
Battles (11)
1980
Second Battle of N'DjamenaChadian–Libyan War · FROLINAT
1986
1989
Gulf of Sidra incidentCold War · Libya
2011
2011 military intervention in LibyaLibyan Civil War (2011) · Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
2011
Battle of Bin JawadLibyan Civil War (2011) · Libyan Government
2011
Battle of Ra's LanufLibyan Civil War (2011) · Libyan Government
2011
Battle of SirteLibyan Civil War (2011) · Gaddafi loyalists
2011
Battle of TripoliLibyan Civil War (2011) · Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
2011
First Battle of BregaLibyan Civil War (2011) · Armed forces of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
2011
Second Battle of BregaLibyan Civil War (2011) · Libyan government
2011
Third Battle of BregaLibyan Civil War (2011) · Libyan Government