Lieutenant General Karel ŘEHKA

Karel Řehka (* February 1, 1975) Lieutenant General of the Czech Armed Forces, from July 2022 Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces. Between 2010 and 2014 he was the commander of the 601st Special Forces Group, between 2014 and 2017 he was the Director of the Special Forces, and between 2017 and 2020 he was the deputy commander of the NATO Multinational Division Northeast in Elbląg (Poland). He also held the position of director of the National Cyber and Information Security Agency from March 2020 to June 2022.

Deployments:

• 1999 – 2000

Team leader, 6th Reconnaissance Company, KFOR, Kosovo

• 2004

Deputy Commander of Czech Special Forces Contingent, Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan

• 2006 – 2007

Senior lead officer – specialist, ISAF, SOCCE, Afghanistan

• 2007 – 2008

Senior lead officer – specialist, ISAF, SOCCE, Afghanistan

• 2011

Commander, Czech Special Operations Task Force ISAF, Afghanistan

Education:

• 1989 – 1993 

Military Grammar School, Opava

• 1993 – 1997 

Military University of Ground Forces, Vyškov (reconnaissance branch)

• 1996

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, United Kingdom (Officers course)

• 1999

Ranger Course, USA

• 2000 – 2001

Distance studies, Military University of Ground Forces, Vyškov (reconnaissance branch)

• 2002

Joint Terminal Attack Controller course, United Kingdom

• 2003

Senior officers course – brigade staff course (national defence management – crisis management), Military Academy, Brno

• 2015 – 2016 

General Staff course, University of Defence Brno