The Military Bureau, which succeeded the Military Committee, oversees the Syrian armed forces.

The Oregon Military Department is an agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon, which oversees the armed forces of the state of Oregon.

The Somaliland Minister of Defence Ahmed Haji Abdi Adami currently oversees the armed forces.

And he is accused by the Hague tribunal of overseeing the forces that carried out the slaughter of thousands of unarmed civilians in Srebrenica in 1995.

The President spends weeks at a time in Gulu, overseeing the forces.

Whether or not they were wartime service members, U.S. presidents are eligible to be buried at Arlington, since they oversaw the armed forces as commanders-in-chief.

Luis Echeverría, the interior minister in 1968, played a central role overseeing the forces that carried out the Tlatelolco killings.

Jiang is re-elected head of the influential Central Military Commission, which oversees the armed forces.

The government has also been shut out of federal bodies like the National Bank of Yugoslavia and the Supreme Military Council, which oversees the armed forces in war.

Mr. Jiang no longer has a seat on the Politburo and is seen as reluctant to have that body actively overseeing the armed forces.