Full Name
Gen Dagvin Anderson, USAF
Job Title
Commander
Company
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)
Speaker Bio
General Dagvin R.M. Anderson, U.S. Air Force, became the seventh Commander of United States Africa Command in August 2025. Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, U.S. AFRICOM is one of seven joint service geographic combatant commands and is responsible for all U.S. military operations and activities to protect and advance U.S. national interests in Africa.
A native of Ypsilanti, Michigan, General Anderson graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and commissioned in 1992. He has commanded at five different echelons to include commanding JTF-Quartz, a joint task force directed with the responsibility for overseeing the repositioning of U.S. forces from Somalia. As a command pilot with more than 3,400 flight hours, including 738 combat hours, Gen. Anderson has flown 16 different aircraft throughout his career. Notably, he has flown the KC-135R, MC-130E, and U-28A operationally in several global contingencies.
General Anderson’s staff and joint General Officer assignments include Deputy Director for Operations, Headquarters, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Commander, Special Operations Command-Africa, Stuttgart; Vice Director, Operations, Joint Staff, the Pentagon; and Director for Joint Force Development, the Pentagon.
His previous staff and joint assignments also include serving as the Special Assistant to the Commander and Director of the Commander’s Strategic Initiative Group for United Nations Command-Combined Forces Command-U.S. Forces Korea; Senior Aviation Advisor for Counter-Terrorism Operations for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict; and Deputy Director of the Commander’s Action Group for United States Special Operations Command.
General Anderson’s military academic honors include being a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and an Olmsted Scholar at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
A native of Ypsilanti, Michigan, General Anderson graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and commissioned in 1992. He has commanded at five different echelons to include commanding JTF-Quartz, a joint task force directed with the responsibility for overseeing the repositioning of U.S. forces from Somalia. As a command pilot with more than 3,400 flight hours, including 738 combat hours, Gen. Anderson has flown 16 different aircraft throughout his career. Notably, he has flown the KC-135R, MC-130E, and U-28A operationally in several global contingencies.
General Anderson’s staff and joint General Officer assignments include Deputy Director for Operations, Headquarters, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Commander, Special Operations Command-Africa, Stuttgart; Vice Director, Operations, Joint Staff, the Pentagon; and Director for Joint Force Development, the Pentagon.
His previous staff and joint assignments also include serving as the Special Assistant to the Commander and Director of the Commander’s Strategic Initiative Group for United Nations Command-Combined Forces Command-U.S. Forces Korea; Senior Aviation Advisor for Counter-Terrorism Operations for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict; and Deputy Director of the Commander’s Action Group for United States Special Operations Command.
General Anderson’s military academic honors include being a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and an Olmsted Scholar at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.
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