Giuseppe Valotto

Giuseppe Valotto

Giuseppe Valotto (born October 13, 1946 in Venice ) is a retired Italian general . From 2009 to 2011 he was Chief of Staff of the Italian Army , from September 2005 to August 2006 he commanded the KFOR force in Kosovo .

Military career

Valotto was trained at the military academy in Modena and Turin and initially served as platoon leader and company commander in the tank force . He later returned to the military academy as lecture director and then as commander . In 1980/81 and 1984/85 he completed general staff courses at the command academy of the Italian army and was then a. a. in the G1 department of the Army General Staff, in the staff of III. Corps in Milan and the Ministry of Defense in Rome .

From 1997 to 1999 Valotto commanded the Ariete tank brigade , with whose staff he also led the Multinational Brigade North in Sarajevo from October 1998 to April 1999 . In 1999 he became head of the military academy in Modena for two years, then until 2004 deputy commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) in Rheindahlen , Germany . Before he took over the KFOR command as Lieutenant General in 2005, he was still in charge of the G1 division of the General Staff.

After his assignment in Kosovo, Giuseppe Valotto became commander of the command academy of the Italian armed forces . From March 2008 to September 2009 he commanded the operational command in Rome-Centocelle , after which he took over the post of Chief of Staff of the Army. Valotto passed this position on to General Claudio Graziano on December 6, 2011 and then retired.

Web links

• Official Biography of KFOR (English)