Lieutenant General Pasi Välimäki

Commander Finnish Army

Matriculation Examination Turku Normaalikoulu Upper-Secondary School 1984
Military service, Armoured Brigade 1985–1986
Deputy Platoon Leader, Pori Brigade 1986
Officer's Degree, Military Academy 1986–1989
Instruction Officer, Signal Regiment 1989–1992
Intelligence Officers' Introductory Course 1991
Staff Officer, Signal Regiment 1992–1993
Unit Commander, Signal Regiment 1993–1994
Signals Captain Course 1994
Military Observer Course, Germany 1994
Instruction Officer, Signal School, Signal Regiment 1995
UN Military Observer in the former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR and UNMOP) 1995–1996
Senior Staff Officer Course and General Staff Officer Course 1996–1998
Staff Officer (Intelligence), Army Division, Defence Staff 1998–2001
Staff Officers Joint Electronic Warfare Course (NATO), Great Britain 1998
United Nations Staff Officer Course, Sweden 1999
Chief of Intelligence, Finnish Battalion Kosovo, KFOR 2000
Staff Officer (Electronic Warfare), C4 Division, Defence Staff 2000–2003
Intelligence Officers' Advanced Course 2001
Liaison Officer, US Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, USA 2003–2005
Command and Staff Course, United States Marine Corps, USA 2005
Senior Staff Officer, Operations Division, Defence Command 2005–2006
Senior Command Course 2006
Senior Staff Officer, Plans and Policy Division, Defence Command 2007
Battalion Commander, Karelia Brigade 2007–2009
Chief of Branch, Operations Division, Defence Command 2009–2011
Deputy Chief of Operations, Regional Command North HQ, ISAF, Afghanistan 2012
Senior Staff Officer, Plans and Policy Division, Defence Command 2012
Chief of the Strategic Planning Branch, Defence Command Plans and Policy Division 2013–2015
211th National Defence Course 2014 International Fellow, National War College, National Defense University, USA 2015–2016
Special Assignment, Operations Division, Defence Command 2016
Commander of Karelia Brigade 2017–2019
Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations 2019-2021
Commander of the Finnish Army 2022-

Day 2 - Contemporary Operating Environment - 21 JAN

17:15 COMBINED OPERATIONS OF THE FINNISH ARMY

• Preparing to defence NATO’s Eastern flank with support from Allies

• Development of the CVAS programme as more vehicles are ordered and delivered to forces

• Exploring the uses and limitations of autonomy for armoured operations in the current landscape

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