Carlo Cabigiosu

 'Carlo Cabigiosu'  (June 22 1939 in Bruneck, South Tyrol) is a former General of the Italian army. From October 2000 to April 2001, he led the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo.

Military career
Cabigiosu joined the Italian army in 1959 as officer [officer officer]. After attending Modena Military Academy and Turin, he served as  platoon commander and from 1967 as company commander at Alpini. In 1970 he returned to the military academy in Modena as instructor and lecturer. From 1972 to 1975 he graduated General Staff at the leadership academies of the army and the armed forces in Rome. In 1976, he was on the staff of the Alpini Brigade Julia in Udine. In 1978, he began a general staff training course at [Staff College Camberley | Staff College] in Camberley, UK. After graduation, he served at the Army General Staff in Rome. From 1981 to 1983 he commanded the [Alpini Brigade Taurinense | Alpinibataillon Susa], which at that time was part of the "NATO Allied Mobile Force - Land" (AMF-L). He then worked with the army general staff for a further four years with a brief break.

From 1987 to 1990 Cabigiosu was at the Italian Embassy in Bonn Military Attaché. After a brief spell at the head of the Alpini Brigade Taurinense in Turin, in 1991 he became Chief of Operations (G3) of the Army General Staff and then Deputy Office Manager of the Secretary of Defense.

From 1995 to 1997 he was deputy commander of the Aliied Rapid Reaction Corps in JHQ at Rheindahlen, Germany. In this capacity, he also participated in 1996 in the operation "Joint Endeavor" in Sarajevo. After a short time as commander of a territorial command, in 1999 he became head of the staff of the NATO command AFSOUTH in Naples. From October 2000 to April 2001, he commanded the KFOR force in Kosovo as Lieutenant General. He then took over the management of the Commando Command of the Armed Forces in Rome until June 2002.