Major General (Ret.) Vakhtang Kapanadze served as Georgia’s Deputy Defense
Minister from 1990 to 1991, after which he was appointed Chief of Staff of the
Afghan War Veteran’s Battalion and the Special Reconnaissance Battalion (1991-
1992). Between 1993 and 1999, he was Head of the Combat
Reconnaissance/Intelligence branch of Main Intelligence Department. Other
positions held include Commander of 11 th Motorized Brigade, Chief of J-2
Department of General Staff, Chief of Staff of the Rapid Reaction Forces, Chief of
General Staff of Georgia (2004-2005), Military Adviser to the President of Georgia
(2005-2006). MG Kapanadze was appointed Georgia’s Envoy Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Poland in 2007, a position he held until 2008, when Russia
–Georgia war broke out. From 2008 to 2012 he served as Deputy Head of Foreign
Intelligence Service of Georgia. Between 2013 and 2016, MG Kapanadze served
as the Georgian Armed Forces’ Chief of General Staff/GEO CHOD. He was
appointed Georgia’s Military representative to NATO and EU in 2017, a position
he held until 2020. Currently Vakhtang Kapanadze is the deputy director-general
of Military Advanced Technologies Research, Development and Production Center
FDI – DELTA and researcher of the analytical center GeoCase.
Vakhtang Kapanadze is an alumnus of the College of Strategic Studies and
Defense Economics at the George C. Marshal Center in Germany, attended the
Ukraine Armed Forces National Academy’s Operational-Tactical Faculty ( Gold
Medal) (1998-1999), and also the U.S. Army War College (2002-2003). In 2014 he
was awarded the academic degree of the Doctor of Military Science. He is author
of a number of publications and researches in defense sphere.
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