Background
Laaneots, Ants was born on January 16, 1948 in Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia.
Laaneots, Ants was born on January 16, 1948 in Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia.
Graduate as an Army Tank Officer, Higher Military School, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1970. Student, Malinovsky Armoured and Mechanized Forces Academy, Moscow, 1978—1981. Graduate, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defense College, Rome, 1998.
Student, Finnish National Defense College.
Platoon leader, company Commander, battalion Commander 300th Tank Regiment Soviet Army, Ukraine, 1970—1978, executive officer 96th Tank Regiment to Commander 18th Tank Regiment to deputy commander-chief of staff 78th Armored Division on Soviet-Chinese border Kazakhstan, 1981—1987, military advisor to Commander infantry division to military advisor to commanding general army corps Ethiopia, 1987—1989, chief regional department defense Tartu, Estonia, 1989—1991. Chief general staff Estonian Defense Forces, 1991—1994, 1997—1999, in research, 1994—1996, inspector general, 1997, major general, since 1998. Head Baltic Defense Research Center, Estonia, 2000.
Commandant Estonian National Defense College, 2001—2006. Chief Defense Estonia North Atlantic Treaty Organization, since 2006.
Member of Estonian National Defense League, Rotary Club.
Married Natalia Laaneots. 2 children.