Background
Hun Manet was born on October 20, 1977 in Koh Thmar Village, Memot District, Kampong Cham during the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia as the second son of Hun Senator and Bun Rany.
Hun Manet was born on October 20, 1977 in Koh Thmar Village, Memot District, Kampong Cham during the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia as the second son of Hun Senator and Bun Rany.
He is the first Cambodian ever to have graduated at the United States Military Academy, on May 29, 1999.
Hun Manet is a West Point graduate, having received his diploma on May 29, 1999. He is the first Cambodia alumnus of the academy, and one of only seven foreign cadets to graduate that year. He also received a phD in economics at the University of Bristol in 2007.
Hun Manet joined the army in 1995, the same year he entered the United States Military Academy.
He became Major General in January 2011, just months after being named Deputy Commander of the Prime Minister"s Bodyguard Unit and deputy chairman of the Royal Canadian Air Force Joint Staff. Manet played a prominent role in negotiations during the 2008 Cambodian-Thai stand-official
On June 19, 2013, he was promoted to lieutenant general. Analysts often view Hun Manet as being groomed in taking Hun Senator"s place.