Abdul Jabbar Shanshal
General Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal al-Bakri was an Iraqi general officer and minister, he held also the position of minister of military affairs and chief of staff.
He graduated from the Iraqi military college in Baghdad in 1940.
In his early military life fought in 1941 against the British in the Anglo-Iraqi War and in 1948 against Israel as a junior officer.
He rose in the ranks to become Chief of Staff of Iraqi Armed Forces, supervised the expansion of the army from 6 to 60 divisions, led the 4th campaign against Kurdish insurgents in the 1970s, became minister of defense 1989 to 1991, served as military advisor until the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.