Serbian Armed Forces
The Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) defend the country from external armed threats and perform other missions and tasks in accordance with the Constitution, laws and principles of international law governing the use of force.- Serbian Armed Forces
- Serbian Armed Forces General StaffChief of General Staff, Serbian Armed Forces, General Milan Mojsilović
- The ArmyCommander, Army, Lieutenant General Milosav Simović
- Air Force and Air DefenceCommander, Air Force and Air Defence, Lieutenant General Duško Žarković
- Training CommandCommander, Training Command, Major General Zoran Nasković
- SAF GuardCommander, SAF Guard, Colonel Željko Furundžić
- 72nd Special Operations BrigadeCommander, 72nd Special Operations Brigade, Brigadier General Miroslav Talijan
- 63rd Parachute BrigadeCommander, 63rd Parachute Brigade, Brigadier General Nenad Zonić
- MP Detachment for Special Purposes
The missions and tasks of the Serbian Armed Forces are defined by the Defence Strategy of the Republic of Serbia, and are based on the inalienable right of the Republic of Serbia on individual and collective defence, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations and fundamental principles of the international law governing the use of force.
Organization of the Serbian Armed Forces matches the extent of threats, resources, missions, tasks and international standards. The organization also determines the fundamental principles, type of armed forces, functional and organizational structure and command. The Serbian Armed Forces develop their own training and logistics system, resting on the resources available in the country.
At the operational level, arms of service commands, Training Command and other operational commands, with the organization adapted to the organization of the General Staff, are in charge of command and control. At the tactical level, command and control are executed by the brigade commands and commands of the units of the equal level with the organization adapted to the commands of operational level.
Arms of service are integrated organizational entities of branches and services which are relatively autonomous in their combat actions on the land and in the air. Arms of service in the Serbian Armed Forces are Army and Air Force and Air Defence.The general service are personnel, telecommunications, air surveillance and early warning, nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC), intelligence, security, information, geodetic, meteorology and navigation, finance and legal affairs.
The logistic services are technical, quartermasters, traffic and transport, medical, veterinary and construction.
Serbian Armed Forces consist of permanent and reserve forces.
Permanent forces of the Serbian Armed Forces comprise professional members of the Serbian Armed Forces and soldiers doing their military service.
Reserve forces comprise reserve officers, NCO's and soldiers. Reserve forces of the Serbian Armed Forces are divided into active reserve and passive reserve.
Serbian Armed Forces take a neutral position concerning different ideologies, interests and politics.
Contact Information
Address: 38, Neznanog junaka St., 11 000 Belgrade
Phone: +381 (0) 11 2063-901
Fax: +381 11 (0) 3006-331
Email: vojska.srbije@vs.rs