Serbian General Staff


The General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces is the highest authority within the Serbian Armed Forces and a significant command entity with numerous organizational units under its direct command.

Missions

General Staff possess operational authority over the armed forces. Its primary roles and responsibilities include:
  • developing the command structure
  • establishing a plan of recruitment and schedule for recruits
  • regulating training of the armed forces
  • establishing plans for education and training,
  • performing other tasks determined by law.

Composition

Members

Members of five most senior ranking officers who make strategic and tactical preparations and procedures for use during peacetime and war.
PositionPhotoNameRankService
Chief of the General StaffMilan MojsilovićGeneral
Army
Deputy Chief of the General StaffTiosav JankovićLt. Col. General
Air Force and Air Defence|Air Force]
Commander of the ArmyZoran NaskovićMajor general
Army
Commander of the Air Force and Air DefenceBrane KrnjajićMajor general
Air Force
Training CommanderDragiša ZlatkovićBrig. general
Army
Commander of the GuardŽeljko FurundžićMajor general
Army

Structure

There are various brigades and brigade-size entities directly subordinated to the General Staff, including two brigades of the special forces.

Traditions

Patron saint

The General Staff's slava or its saint's feast day is Saint George known as Đurđevdan.