Commander’s CV – ΑΔΙΣΠΟ

Finis coronat opus (The end crowns the work).

Commandant of the Supreme Joint War College

Major General Michail Ploumis was born in Sitia (Crete) in 1969. In 1986 he attended the Hellenic Army Military Academy and, in 1990, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of the Hellenic Infantry. Upon receiving his commission and, up until now, he has served in various infantry and general army special forces positions, in Greece (Megalo Pefko, Chalkida, Simi, Rentina, Chania, Thessaloniki, Mitilini, Kos, Orestiada, Athens) and abroad [Cyprus (the Greek Regiment in Cyprus), Milan (NRDC-ITA), Kabul (ISAF)]. He has served as Commander of Amphibious Squadrons on the islands of Lesbos and Kos, Chief of Staff in two formations in Evros and Athens, Deputy Commander of the Lesbos Brigade, Commander of the V^th Cretan Airmobile Division, and as Director of Training and Doctrine in the Hellenic Army General Staff. He currently serves as Commander of the SJWC.

In the course of his career, he has completed all requisite infantry and special ops training in Greece, Germany and Belgium. He graduated from the Supreme War College in Thessaloniki in 2003 and the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania in 2016 as distinguished graduate, (in the top 10% of his class amongst 382 U.S. and foreign graduates). He received the “Foundation Award for Outstanding Strategy Research Paper for the USAWC, Class of 2016” from the same college.

He holds a doctorate and post doctorate degree from the Economics Department of the University of Peloponnesus, a master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, a master’s in International Studies and a Law Degree from the School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens.

He is certified in project management and, in addition to his duties, is a member of the scientific faculty of the Hellenic Army Military Academy and Visiting Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in the Department of Business Administration. He has published a plethora of articles in international and domestic scientific journals and conducts peer reviews for three international scientific journals.

He is married to a Judge of the Athens Court of Appeal and has two children. Vassiliki who is studying Law at the University of Athens and Taxiarchis-Stylianos who is a high school student.

Major General Michail Ploumis has published a substantial number of significant works and articles as follows:

Bibliography:

The Art of War: The Art of War throughout History (Eurasia, 2020)
Lessons in Leadership, 2^nd Edition (Eurasia, 2021)
Sun Tzu’s Art of War (Eurasia, 2022)

Articles:

Michail Ploumis, Costas Kokolakis, “Sun Tsu and Artificial Intelligence,” Comparative Strategy (44, no.1, 2025).
Michail Ploumis, Strategy and Grand Tactics of Napoleon the Great for the 21st Century,” Comparative Strategy (42, no. 2, 2023).
Michail Ploumis, “AI Weapon Systems in Future War Operations; Strategy, Operations and Tactics,” Comparative Strategy (41, no. 1, 2022).
Michail Ploumis, “Comprehending and Countering Hybrid Warfare Strategies by Utilizing the Principles of Sun Tzu,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, (24, νο.2, 2022), 344-364.
Michail Ploumis, “Strategy, Sun Tzu and the Battle of Marathon,” Defence Studies (21, no.1 2021), 107-121.
Michail Ploumis, “Exclusive Economic Zones in the South China Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A Comparative Study on a Strategic Issue,” International Journal of Science and Research (9, no. 6, June 2020).
Michail Ploumis, “Mission Command and Philosophy for the 21st Century,” Comparative Strategy (39, no. 2, March 2020), 209-218.
Michail Ploumis, “Hellenic National Defense Forces: Embracing Change to Win,” Comparative Strategy (38, no. 6, December 2019), 554-556.
Michail Ploumis, “A New Way Forward: Rebalancing the U.S. Security Cooperation in Greece in a Fast-Changing Geostrategic Environment,” Applied Finance and Accounting, (4, no. 1, February 2018), 95-111.
Michail Ploumis, “America’s Byzantine Strategy,” Army War College, War Room, (5, June 14, 2018, Spring 2018).
Michail Ploumis, Labros E. Pilalis, “Implementing sustainable mission command in the Hellenic Army,” Defence Studies (18, no. 1, March 2018), 95-112.
Michail Ploumis, “Hellenic Defence Industrial Base in the Era of Economic Crisis,” South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics (2, 2017), 103-125.
Michail Ploumis, “Hellenic national security: the Turkish challenge,” Army War College Review (2, no. 3, August 2016), 21-42.
Michail Ploumis, Labros Pilalis, “A New Deal for the Middle East and North Africa,” Mediterranean Quarterly (27, no. 2, June 2016), 89-100.
Theodoros Anagnostopoulos, Michail Ploumis, Alkinoos Psarras, Faidon Komisopoulos, Ioannis Salmon, Klimis Ntalianis, S. R. Jino Ramson, Sustainable Supply Chain Management of COVID-19 Vaccines for Vaccination Delivery based on Routing Algorithms, Wseas Transactions on Business and Economics, no. 20, 2023, DOI: 10.37394/23207.2023.20.221

E-mail: m.s.ploumis@army.gr , michailploumis@gmail.com