Chief Operations Officer (Bhutan)
The Chief Operations Officer of the Royal Bhutan Army (COO; Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་པོའི་དམག་སྡེ་གི་ འགོ་འཛིན་འགོ་དཔོན།, romanized: rgyal po'i dmag sde gi 'go 'dzin 'go dpon/) is the professional head of the Royal Bhutan Army. The position was established on 25 November 1964 at the army headquarters in Thimphu by the King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The purpose of the Chief Operations Officer is to assist the King of Bhutan (the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces) and the Prime Minister of Bhutan (the chief executive of the kingdom) in commanding the RBA. The current COO is Batoo Tshering.
List of COOs
- Lieutenant General Lam Dorji (25 November 1964 – 1 November 2005)[1]
- Lieutenant General Batoo Tshering (1 November 2005[2][3] – present)
See also
References
- ↑ "Former army chief Goongloen Lam Dorji passes away". Kuensel Online. Retrieved 2026-08-06.
- ↑ "Dozin Batoo Tshering takes over as COO of RBA". Kuensel. 2005-11-02.
- ↑ "RANK INSIGNIA - ARMY LAND FORCES". Archived from the original on 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
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