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- Hermann von Eichhorn Hermann von Eichhorn German field marshal who governed occupied Ukraine in 1918 and was assassinated in Kiev by a Left SR
- Junaid Khan Jüneýit han Yomut Turkmen chief who held real power in the Khanate of Khiva in 1918–1920 and fought Soviet rule for more than a decade
- Najmuddin Gotsinsky Нажмудин Гоцинский Avar religious leader and mufti of the North Caucasus who led anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Dagestan and Chechnya in 1918–1925
- Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff General who directed Germany’s war with Hindenburg and later joined Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
- Rüdiger von der Goltz Rüdiger von der Goltz Freikorps commander who tried to keep Germany's eastern influence in Finland and the Baltic
- Lucjan Żeligowski Lucjan Żeligowski Polish general who seized Vilnius in a staged 'mutiny' and set up Central Lithuania
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Aristocratic soldier who rose from Russian Imperial lieutenant general to Marshal of Finland, facing the Soviet Union in two wars
- Maxime Weygand Maxime Weygand From Foch's brilliant staff officer to a general of defeat and accommodation
- Max Hoffmann Max Hoffmann German Eastern Front chief of staff who placed his soldier's boot on the Brest-Litovsk negotiating table
- Pietro Badoglio Pietro Badoglio A marshal who served Fascism before steering Italy's turn
- Joseph August Joseph August von Österreich Habsburg archduke and last field marshal of the Austro-Hungarian army who briefly declared himself regent of Hungary in August 1919
- Pál Prónay Prónay Pál Counter-revolutionary paramilitary commander who led the most brutal officer detachment of the Hungarian White Terror of 1919–1921
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb Wehrmacht field marshal who directed the encirclement of Leningrad
- Erich Raeder Erich Raeder A Nazi German naval commander who pursued a grand surface fleet
- Antal Lehár Lehár Antal Legitimist general who led counter-revolutionary troops in western Hungary and joined both of King Charles’s return attempts in 1921
- Sadao Araki 荒木貞夫 A militarist leader of Japan's Imperial Way faction
- Pavel Bermondt-Avalov Павел Бермондт-Авалов Commander of the West Russian Volunteer Army who led German Freikorps against Riga
- Symon Vasyliovych Petliura Симон Васильович Петлюра Ukrainian independence leader who headed the People's Republic but whose role in pogroms remains fiercely contested
- Waldemar Pabst Waldemar Pabst Freikorps officer who ordered the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in January 1919 and joined the Kapp Putsch
- Władysław Sikorski Władysław Sikorski A general who defended Polish sovereignty between exile and return
- Henrik Werth Werth Henrik Chief of the Hungarian General Staff who was the strongest advocate of alliance with Germany and of war on the Soviet Union
- Maximilian von Weichs Maximilian von Weichs German field marshal who commanded the Stalingrad offensive
- Otozō Yamada 山田乙三 The Imperial Army's final Kwantung Army commander
- Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Keitel German general who headed the Wehrmacht High Command and was complicit in Nazi war crimes.
- Yoshijirō Umezu 梅津美治郎 The army chief caught between imperial command and surrender
- Petre Dumitrescu Petre Dumitrescu Romania's commander on the Eastern Front
- Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz Anti-Soviet partisan commander who moved from Estonia to Belarus, changing camps as he went
- Bertram Ramsay Bertram Home Ramsay The naval commander who organized the Dunkirk evacuation
- Rudolf Lüters Rudolf Lüters Wehrmacht general who directed anti-Partisan operations
- Döme Sztójay Sztójay Döme Soldier-diplomat who pushed for the German alliance in Berlin and, as prime minister under occupation, sped up the Jewish deportations
- Gusztáv Jány Jány Gusztáv Commander of the Hungarian Second Army destroyed on the Don in January 1943
- István Friedrich Friedrich István Factory owner who was prime minister of Hungary for three months after the August 1919 coup against the Peidl government
- Isoroku Yamamoto 山本五十六 The admiral who feared war with America yet designed Pearl Harbor
- Hideki Tojo 東條英機 A soldier-statesman who steered imperial Japan from northern ambitions toward southern expansion and war
- Károly Bartha Bartha Károly Defence minister who pressed for joining the invasion of Yugoslavia and the war on the Soviet Union, and harshened labour service
- Franz Halder Franz Halder Chief of the German Army General Staff who planned Barbarossa and later forged the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht"
- Michitarō Komatsubara 小松原道太郎 Imperial Japanese general defeated at Khalkhin Gol
- Seishirō Itagaki 板垣征四郎 The army strategist who turned a railway pretext into the conquest of Manchuria
- Albert Kesselring Albert Kesselring Nazi field marshal who built the Luftwaffe and directed the defence of Italy
- Kazimierz Sosnkowski Kazimierz Sosnkowski A military leader who shaped Poland's independence struggle and armed forces in exile
- Hermann Hoth Hermann Hoth A German general whose armoured successes were inseparable from crimes on the Eastern Front
- Stanislav Čeček Stanislav Čeček Commander of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia
- Gyula Gömbös Gömbös Gyula Right-radical officer who organised the Szeged National Army and as prime minister in 1932–1936 steered Hungary towards Italy and Germany
- Gotthard Heinrici Gotthard Heinrici The Wehrmacht's defensive specialist on the Eastern Front
- Mitsuru Ushijima 牛島満 Japanese general who directed Okinawa's war of attrition
- Heinrich von Vietinghoff Heinrich von Vietinghoff The general who represented Germany's surrender in Italy
- Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
- Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
- Ibrahim Bek Ibrohimbek Laqay Lakai tribal chief who fought for the restoration of the Emir of Bukhara as the leading Basmachi commander in eastern Bukhara
- Kanji Ishiwara 石原莞爾 The theorist who designed Japan's Manchurian expansion