Deputy chief of General Staff - Inspector General

Major General Miloslav Lafek

Education:

1988 - 1995
1st Tank Division – commander, motorized rifle platoon through deputy commander motorized rifle battalion, motorized rifle regiment staff officer, division staff senior officer, deputy chief, division staff section
1995 - 2000
Operations Staff of the General Staff, operational planning section specialist
2000 - 2003
Future Planning Division of the General Staff – team chief – deputy chief of operational planning and doctrines section, deputy chief of future planning section
2003 - 2004
NATO, SHAPE – Combined Joint Planning Staff
2004 - 2007
NATO, SHAPE – Allied Command Operations – J5 Plans & Policy specialist
2007 - 2010
MoD Force Development Division-Operations Division – deputy department director – head, operations planning section
2011 - 2015
Deputy Director MoD Joint Operations Centre – Director, Operations Planning Department
2015 - 2018
Director, Operations Planning Department, MoD Joint Operations Centre
2015 - 2016
Commander, Czech Armed Forces 12th Task Force Resolute Support Afghanistan
2019
Deputy Director, MoD Capability Planning Division
8 May 2019
promoted Brigadier General
2020 - 2023
Director, MoD Capabilities Planning Division
8 May 2021
promoted Major General
1 May 2023
Deputy Chief of General Staff – Inspector General of the Czech Armed Forces

Czech Armed Forces Service Medal, 3rd, 2nd, 1st grade
Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence, 3rd, 2nd grade
Czech Armed Forces Medal of Merit, 3rd, 2nd grade
Czech MoD Foreign Service Medal – Afghanistan, 3rd grade
Non Article 5 NATO Medal RS – Afghanistan
Medal of Merit in Security
Czech Armed Forces Medal of Merit of Premysl Ottokar II, the King of Iron and Gold

Updated: February 11, 2025