Sami Sadat

Shailja kaushik

Deputy Chief of General Staff

Lt. Gen. Sami Sadat, Leader of the Afghanistan United Front is the former Commanding General of the Afghan National Special Operations Corps. In 2020 commanded the Afghan National Army’s 215 Maiwand Corps in southwestern Afghanistan and was commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in 2019, and before that, he was a senior director in the Afghan intelligence services. He Served as Director of covert action program from 2014 to 2016 and was then leading the Afghan and US intelligence joint clandestine counter-terrorism activities until to 2018. He is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College at the Defence Academy of the U.K. Class of 2011 (ACSC 14).

LTG Sadat went to the Polish Defence Academy where he completed the Battalion Command Course and the NATO Military Academy in Munich, Germany. In addition, he holds an MA in Strategic Management and Leadership from the U.K. Charter Management Institute.