Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

Nigerian Economist

John Eisenhower

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

American Soldier

Understand that 'brigadier' refers to a specific rank, below general but above colonel.

Military Rank

The term is typically used within the army, less commonly in other branches of the military.

Army Context

A brigadier often has a significant leadership role and responsibility for strategic decisions.

Leadership Role

 weapons once both of them cocked their weapons i knew they meant business this is brigadier abdul rahman bilal a retired pakistani army officer his son helped him set up a skype call with me from his home in rawalpindi where i could hear small children in the

Unraveling a Mapmaker’s...

 And what we thought about the possibility of those young soldiers going into combat as being theoretical was now very, very real -- and leadership seemed important. But things had changed; I was a 46-year-old brigadier general. I'd been successful,

Brigadier