Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal

General Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal (1920-2014) born in Mosul, Iraq was an Iraqi senior officer and war minister for a very long period of time, also he held the position of minister of military affairs and chief of staff.

He graduated from the Iraqi military college in Baghdad in 1940 (cycle 18), and he participated in most of Iraq wars including:
 * Anglo-Iraqi War
 * Barazan movements
 * 1948 Arab–Israeli War
 * First Iraqi–Kurdish War
 * 1967 Arab Israeli war or Six-Day War
 * October 1973 war or Yom Kippur War
 * Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
 * Iran–Iraq War
 * Gulf War.