Giuseppe Valotto

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

Military career
Valotto was educated at the Modena Military Academy in Modena and Turin, and initially served as platoon commander and company commander in the Panzertruppe. He later returned to the military academy as lecturer and then commander. In 1980/81 and 1984/85 he graduated from the Italian army's command academy and was then a & nbsp; a. in the G1 department of the Army General Staff, in the staff of the III. Corps in Milan and the Ministry of Defense in Rome.

From 1997 to 1999, Valotto commanded the Panzerbrigade Ariete, with whose staff he 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 in 2005 as lieutenant general, he still headed the G1 department of the General Staff.

After serving in Kosovo, Giuseppe Valotto became commander of Leadership Academy of  Italian Armed Forces. From March 2008 to September 2009, he commanded the Operation Command in  Rom-Centocelle military airfield], after which he assumed the post of Army Chief of Staff. Valotto handed over this post on December 6, 2011 to General Claudio Graziano and then retired.