Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan gabatar da cikakken mulkin mallaka a 1660, Sarki ya mallaki cikakken iko a kan sojojin. Koyaya, a lokuta na yaƙi, Sarki zai nada kwamandojin yanki. Bayan karshen yakin Ingila
, an yanke shawarar kiyaye umarnin, har ma a lokacin zaman lafiya. Asalin da ake kira Janar Janar a kan Zealand, Lolland-Falster, Møn da Bornholm, yana ɗaya daga cikin Janar Janar biyar. Duk da haka, bayan Frederick VI ya hau mulki, ya ci gaba da iko da Zealand. Sai bayan mutuwar Sarki a 1839, aka mayar da iko ga sojoji, tare da Yarima Ferdinand a matsayin shugaban farko. A kusa da 1900, an sanya kwamandan kwamandan Janar na 1 a matsayin Babban Kwamandan Sojoji a lokutan yaki. Saboda haka, a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na I, kwamandan ya karɓi iko da rundunar tsaro. A matsayin wani ɓangare na Yarjejeniyar Tsaro na 1922, an haɗu da Babban Kwamandan na 1 da na 2 don ƙirƙirar Babban Kwamandan.