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 "title": "NATO's Chiefs of Defence Elect General Carsten Breuer Chair of the Military Committee From Summer 2027",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/nato-chiefs-of-defence-elect-general-carsten-breuer-chair-military-committee-summer-2027-three-years-carignan-canada-copenhagen/",
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 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-09-19T19:58:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-22T19:59:21.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCopenhagen, 19 September 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * NATO said on 19 September, at the close of the Military Committee conference in Copenhagen: \"Allied nations elected General Carsten Breuer, Chief of Defence of Germany, to be the next Chair of the NATO Military Committee. He will assume the post in summer 2027, for a three-year mandate\"\n * The 32 chiefs of defence voted by secret ballot; the other candidate was General Jennie Carignan, Canada's chief of the defence staff, and the tally",
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