John Cooper (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General John Cooper, CB, DSO, MBE (born 17 February 1955) is a former senior British Army officer.

From March 2008 he was the Deputy Commander of Multinational Force-Iraq (MNF-I), the operational-level headquarters in Iraq, and the Senior British Military Representative-Iraq.

[2] Educated at Berwick Grammar School, he then went to Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) as a second lieutenant on 8 March 1975.

[5] In the early 1980s he served two tours with a British Army advisory and training team in Zimbabwe before attending Staff College, Camberley in 1987.

In an interview on 3 March 2009 he expressed his belief that the struggle against Al Qaida in Iraq had been won, and that the country was getting back on its feet.

British Army Lt. Gen. John Cooper (left), the Multi National Forces Iraq deputy commanding general, and the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to Iraq, His Excellency Christopher Prentice , place a wreath at a memorial marker during an Armistice Day rededication ceremony for the newly restored British Royal Air Force Cemetery in Habbaniyah , Iraq, Nov. 11. Two minutes of silence was observed in remembrance of the men and women who perished defending the nearby RAF Habbaniya .