Air Marshal Edward Stringer is the Director General of Joint Force Deployment and DG Defence Academy, within Joint Forces Command. He is the de facto ‘J7’ for the UK’s Military Strategic Headquarters, owning the conceptual element of UK fighting power, including concepts & doctrine, training and education. Before that he was Assistant CDS (Operations) at the MOD in Whitehall, acting as its operations director- from UK flood-relief to the Deterrent. He was also previously the RAF’s Assistant Chief, responsible for all policy interaction with the MOD and for the RAF Board’s business. He arrived there from seeing the inside of the Pentagon as CDS’ Liaison Officer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
A previous Commandant Air Warfare Centre and head of RAF Intelligence, he has had operational commands in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans. A one-time Jaguar pilot and weapons instructor (QWI) he first saw action in the Gulf War in ’91 and in the no-fly zone (NFZ) operations that followed.
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