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Chief of Joint Operations (CJO) is the appointment held by the 3*-ranked

3 star rank

An officer of three-star rank is a very senior commander in many of the armed services holding a rank described by the NATO code of OF-8. The term is also used by some armed forces which are not NATO members...

Officer that heads the Permanent Joint Headquarters

Permanent Joint Headquarters

The Permanent Joint Headquarters is the British tri-service headquarters from where all overseas military operations are planned and controlled. It is situated at Northwood Headquarters in Northwood, London....

(PJHQ) at Northwood Headquarters

Northwood Headquarters

Northwood Headquarters is a military headquarters facility of the British Armed Forces in Eastbury, Hertfordshire, England, adjacent to the London suburb of Northwood...

, North London.

The CJO is responsible for the planning and execution of UK-led joint, potentially joint, combined and multi-national operations.

The current Chief of Joint Operations is Air Marshal

Air Marshal

Air marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

Sir

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

Stuart Peach

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart William Peach KCB CBE FRAeS is a senior Royal Air Force officer, currently serving as the first Commander of Joint Forces Command. He was Chief of Joint Operations from March 2009 until taking up his current appointment in December 2011.-Biography:Peach was...

Chief of Joint Operations 1996 -

April 1996	Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....	Sir Christopher Wallace
February 1999	Vice Admiral Vice Admiral Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...	Sir Ian Garnett Ian Garnett Admiral Sir Ian David Graham Garnett KCB is the Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.-Early life:Born in Surrey, England, he was the son of Capt Ian Garnett, of the Royal Navy. He attended the independent Canford School near Wimborne Minster, Dorset...
August 2001	Lieutenant General	Sir John Reith
26 July 2004	Air Marshal Air Marshal Air marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...	Sir Glenn Torpy Glenn Torpy Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Lester Torpy, GCB, CBE, DSO, ADC is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander. He was a fast jet pilot in the late 1970s and 1980s, a senior officer in the early 1990s and a senior commander in the late 1990s and 2000s...
March 2006	Lieutenant General	Sir Nicholas Houghton Nick Houghton General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds Houghton, GCB, CBE, ADC Gen. is a senior officer in the British Army, currently serving as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, the deputy to the Chief of the Defence Staff, the head of Britain's Armed Forces; based at the Ministry of Defence, London.-Early life:Born...
13 March 2009	Air Marshal	Sir Stuart Peach Stuart Peach Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart William Peach KCB CBE FRAeS is a senior Royal Air Force officer, currently serving as the first Commander of Joint Forces Command. He was Chief of Joint Operations from March 2009 until taking up his current appointment in December 2011.-Biography:Peach was...

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