Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Commander-in-Chief (Army)

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| native_name = {{small|ဒုတိယတပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်၊ ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ် (ကြည်း)}}
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| incumbent = General [[Kyaw Swar Lin]]
| acting =
| incumbentsince = 30 March 2026
| department = Defence Services ([[Tatmadaw]])
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| member_of = [[National Defence and Security Council (Myanmar)|National Defence and Security Council]]
| reports_to = [[Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services]]
| residence = [[Naypyidaw]]
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| appointer = [[President of Myanmar]]
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| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Myanmar]]
| precursor = Deputy Inspector General, Burma Army
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| formation = 1947 {{small|(as DGOC)}}; 1989
{{small|(as DC-in-CDS)}}
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| first = [[Smith Dun]] {{small|(as DGOC)}};
[[Than Shwe]] {{small|(as DC-in-CDS)}}
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| unofficial_names = ဒုကာချုပ်၊ ဒုချုပ်၊ ကြည်းချုပ်
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The '''Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Commander-in-Chief (Army)''' ({{langx|my|ဒုတိယတပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်၊ ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်(ကြည်း)}}) is the second highest military rank in the [[Tatmadaw]], the armed forces of [[Myanmar]], of which official English name is the "Defence Services".The Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2008) and its official English translation; Bilingual[http://constitutionaltribunal.gov.mm:82/lawdatabase/my/download/file/fid/1160]; source: Constitutional Tribunal of the Union၁၉၅၉ခုနှစ်၊ တပ်မတော်အက်ဥပဒေ [The Defence Services Act, 1959] (Bilingual; English and Burmese)၁၉၅၉ ခုနှစ်၊ တပ်မတော်အက်ဥပဒေကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့် ဥပဒေ [The Law Amending the Defence Services Act, 1959]; in Burmese[https://www.mlis.gov.mm/mLsView.do?lawordSn=937] and English[https://www.mlis.gov.mm/mLsView.do?lawordSn=938] Up until 1989, the Tatmadaw had the [[Chief of Staff]] system and the Army, Navy and Air Force branches were led by Vice Chief of Staff (Army), Vice Chief of Staff (Navy), and Vice Chief of Staff (Air Force), respectively.၁၉၅၉ခုနှစ်၊ တပ်မတော်နည်းဥပဒေများ [The Defence Services Rules, 1959] (Bilingual; English and Burmese) A new system was introduced in 1989 during Armed Forces reorganisation and each branche is are now led by its own Commander-in-Chief.၁၉၅၉ ခုနှစ်၊ တပ်မတော်နည်းဥပဒေများကို ပြင်ဆင်သည့် နည်းဥပဒေများ [The Rules Amending the Defence Services Rules, 1959]; in Burmese[https://www.mlis.gov.mm/mLsView.do;jsessionid=E6A6F9F58B0E52230782D3CEE46FE3FE?lawordSn=4929] and English[https://www.mlis.gov.mm/mLsView.do?lawordSn=965]Selth, Andrew (2002): ''Burma's Armed Forces: Power Without Glory'', Eastbridge. {{ISBN|1-891936-13-1}} Since then, except the special case of the 26-day period in 2026, the positions of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and Commander-in-Chief (Army) are traditionally combined and only one officer is appointed at a time.{{cite web |author=DSMuseum |date=30 March 2026 |url=https://dsmuseum.gov.mm/second-commander-chief/ |title=ဒုတိယကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်/ ဒုတိယတပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ် ၊ ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်(ကြည်း) တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သူများ |trans-title=Individuals who have served as Vice Chief of Staff/ Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Commander-in-Chief (Army) |language=my |website=Defence Services Museum |publisher=Defence Services (Army, Navy, Air Force) News Techonlogy Department |access-date=22 April 2026}}{{cite book |author1=Maung Aung Myoe |title=Building the Tatmadaw |date=1999 |publisher=[[Institute of Southeast Asian Studies]] |isbn=9780731527427 |page=73}} The Deputy Commander-in-Chief is appointed by the President, in consultation with the [[National Defence and Security Council (Myanmar)|National Defence and Security Council]], of which they are also a member.

==List of DGOC/VCS(Army)/DC-in-CDS,C-in-C(Army)==
References:

(Dates in italics indicate ''de facto'' continuation of office)
{|class="wikitable"
! rowspan=2| {{abbr|No.|Number}}
! rowspan=2| Portrait
! rowspan=2|[[Service number]]
! rowspan=2|[[Military ranks of Myanmar|Military rank]]
! rowspan=2| Name
! colspan=3| Term of office
! rowspan=2| Jurisdiction
! rowspan=2| Remark
|-
! Start
! End
! Duration
|-
! colspan="10" | ဗမာ့တပ်မတော်ဒုတိယစစ်ဦးစီးချုပ်
[Deputy General Officer Commanding, Burma Army]
|-
| *
| [[File:Smith_Dun.jpg|120 px]]
| BC 5106
|
| စမစ်ဒွန်း
[[Smith Dun]]
| 1 May 1947
| 4 January 1948
| {{Age in days|1947|5|1|1948|1|4}} days
| ဗမာ့တပ်မတော်
Burma Army
| {{efn|His appointment as DGOC is recorded in the military's official history but he is not acknowledged as the first person in the official list of VCS/DC-in-CDS,C-in-C(Army). Later became the first military chief of independent Burma as GOC}}
|-
| 1.
|
| BC
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်
[[Brigadier general|Brigadier General]]
| စောကြာဒိုး
[[Saw Kyar Doe]]
| 14 April 1948
| 30 July 1949
| {{Age in days|1948|4|14|1948|7|30}} days
| ဗမာ့တပ်မတော်
Burma Army
| {{efn|Ethnic Karen Officer, then named "Deputy General Officer Commanding". Saw Kyar Doe moved to the post of Chief of Operation but forced to retire due to [[Karen conflict|civil war with Karen]] Listed as the first VCS/C-in-CDS,C-in-C(Army) in the official list even though he had retired before 1955}}
|-
| 2.
| [[File:Ne Win in Military Uniform (cropped).jpg|120px]]
| BC 3502
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်
[[Major general| Major General]]
| နေဝင်း
[[Ne Win]]
| 1 August 1948
| 1 February 1949
| {{Age in days|1948|8|1|1949|2|1}} days
| ဗမာ့တပ်မတော်
Burma Army
| {{efn|Listed in the official list of VCS/DC-in-CDS,C-in-C(Army) even though his term of office was before 1955. Promoted to GOC in 1949; subsequently became the first Chief of Staff of the unified Tatmadaw, the Defence Services, in 1955}}
|-
! colspan="10" | ဒုတိယကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ် (ကြည်းတပ်)
[Vice Chief of Staff, Defence Services (Army)]
|-
| 3.
|
| BC
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်
Brigadier General
| အောင်ကြီး
[[Aung Gyi]]
| 9 April 1959
| 19 April 1963
| {{Age in years and days|1959|4|9|1963|4|19}}
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
| {{efn|Promoted from Colonel General Staff in April 1959 as Vice Chief Staff (Army) but resigned in February 1963 and was imprisoned few times. First Chairman of NLD but left after few months in December 1988}}
|-
| 4.
| [[File:San Yu.jpg|120px]]
| BC 3569
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Brigadier General
| စန်းယု
[[Tin Oo]]
| 15 February 1963
| 20 April 1972
| {{Age in years and days|1963|2|15|1972|4|20}}
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
| {{efn|Later became the Chief of Staff in 1972}}
|-
| 5.
| [[File:Tin Oo arrives to attend a ceremony (cropped).jpg|120px]]
| BC 3561
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်
Brigadier General
| တင်ဦး
[[Tin Oo]]
| 20 April 1972
| 7 March 1974
| {{Age in years and days|1972|4|20|1974|3|7}}
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
| {{efn|Subsequently promoted to Chief of Staff in 1974. Later became Vice-Chairman of [[National League for Democracy]].}}
|-
| 6.
| [[File:ThuraKyawHtin.jpg|120px]]
| BC 5322
| ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်
Brigadier General
| သူရကျော်ထင်
[[Kyaw Htin|Thura Kyaw Htin]]
| 8 March 1974
| 6 March 1976
| {{Age in years and days|1974|3|8|1976|3|6}}
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
|
|-
| 7.
|
| BC
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး
[[Lieutenant general|Lieutenant General]]
| အေးကို
[[Aye Ko]]
| 2 April 1976
| 7 August 1981
| {{Age in years and days|1976|4|2|1981|8|7}}
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
| {{efn|Later became BSPP general secretary and then Vice President}}
|-
| 8.
|
| BC
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး
[[Lieutenant general|Lieutenant General]]
| ထွန်းရီ
[[Kyaw Htin|Thura Kyaw Htin]]
| 7 August 1981
| 21 July 1983
| {{Age in years and days|1981|8|7|1983|7|21}}
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
| {{efn|Retired from Army in 1983 at age 60 and became Member of Council of State till 1988. Then became general secretary and then Chairman of National Unity Party which was re-incarnation of BSPP}}
|-
| 9.
|
|BC 6187
| ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး
Lieutenant General
| စောမောင်
[[Saw Maung]]
| 22 July 1983
| 4 November 1985
| ''{{Age in years and days|1983|7|22|1985|11|4}}''
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
|
|-
| 10.
| [[File:Than_Shwe_2010-10-11.jpg|120 px]]
|ကြည်း ၆၇၁၀
Army 6710
| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး

[[Four-star rank (Myanmar)#General/Admiral|General]]
| သန်းရွှေ
[[Than Shwe]]
| 4 November 1985
| ''10 May 1989''
| ''{{Age in years and days|1985|11|4|1989|5|10}}''
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်းတပ်)
Defence Services (Army)
|
|-
! colspan="10" | တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်၊ ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်(ကြည်း)
[Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Commander-in-Chief (Army)]
|-
| rowspan=2 | (10)
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Than_Shwe_2010-10-11.jpg|120 px]]
| rowspan=2 |ကြည်း ၆၇၁၀
Army 6710
| rowspan=2 | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး

[[Four-star rank (Myanmar)#General/Admiral|General]]
| rowspan=2 | သန်းရွှေ
[[Than Shwe]]
| rowspan=2 | ''10 May 1989''
| rowspan=2 | 23 April 1992
| rowspan=2 |''{{Age in years and days|1989|5|10|1992|4|23}}''
| မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်
[[Tatmadaw|Defence Services of Myanmar]]
| rowspan=2 |
|-
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)
[[Myanmar Army|Defence Services (Army)]]
|-
| rowspan=2 | 11
| rowspan=2 | [[File:MaungAye.jpg|120 px]]
| rowspan=2 |ကြည်း
Army
| rowspan=2 |ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး

[[Four-star rank (Myanmar)#Vice-senior general|Vice-Senior General]]
| rowspan=2 | မောင်အေး
[[Maung Aye]]
| rowspan=2 | 24 April 1992
| rowspan=2 | 30 March 2011
| rowspan=2 |''{{Age in years and days|1992|4|24|2011|3|30}}''
| မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်
Defence Services of Myanmar
| rowspan=2 |
|-
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)
Defence Services (Army)
|-
| rowspan=2 | 12
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Soe Win.jpg|120 px]]
| rowspan=2 |ကြည်း
Army
| rowspan=2 |ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး

[[Four-star rank (Myanmar)#Vice-senior general|Vice-Senior General]]
| rowspan=2 | စိုးဝင်း
[[Soe Win (general)|Soe Win]]
| 30 March 2011
| 30 March 2026
| {{Age in years and days|2011|3|30|2026|3|30}}
| မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်
Defence Services of Myanmar
| rowspan=2 |
|-
| 30 March 2011
| 4 March 2026
| {{Age in years and days|2011|3|30|2026|3|4}}
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)
Defence Services (Army)
|-
| rowspan=2 | *
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Ye Win Oo.png|120 px]]
| rowspan=2 |ကြည်း
Army
| rowspan=2 |ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး

General
| rowspan=2 | ရဲဝင်းဦး
[[Ye Win Oo]]
| colspan=3,rowspan=2 | {{small|ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်(ကြည်း) Commander-in-Chief (Army)}}
| rowspan=2 | တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)
Defense Services (Army)
| rowspan=2 |{{efn|Subsequently became the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services}}
|-
| 4 March 2026
| 30 March 2026
| {{Age in years and days|2011|3|30|2026|3|30}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | 13
| rowspan=2 | [[File:Kyaw Swar Lin.jpg|120 px]]
| rowspan=2 |ကြည်း
Army
| rowspan=2 |ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး

General
| rowspan=2 | ကျော်စွာလင်း
[[Kyaw Swar Lin]]
| rowspan=2 | 30 March 2011
| rowspan=2 | Incumbent
| rowspan=2 | Incumbent
| မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်
Defence Services of Myanmar
| rowspan=2 |
|-
| တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)
Defence Services (Army)
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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