Serbian General Staff

The General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces (Генералштаб Војске Србије) 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.

Members
Members of five most senior ranking officers who make strategic and tactical preparations and procedures for use during peacetime and war.

Structure
There are various brigades and brigade-size entities directly subordinated to the General Staff, including two brigades of the special forces (thus reducing reaction time when need arise for their operational use).


 * 63. Падобранска Бригада.png 63rd Parachute Brigade
 * 72.Бригада За Специјалне Операције.png 72nd Brigade for Special Operations
 * Serbian Armed Forces (emblem of Serbian guard-Gvardija).gif Guard
 * Command Battalion (Belgrade)
 * Honor Guard Battalion (Belgrade)
 * 25th Military Police Battalion (Belgrade)
 * Logistics Battalion (Belgrade)
 * Brigada veze.gif Signal Brigade
 * Command Platoon (Belgrade)
 * 1st Signal Battalion (Belgrade)
 * 2nd Signal Battalion (Belgrade)
 * 3rd Signal Battalion (Belgrade)
 * 4th Signal Battalion (Belgrade)
 * Emblem of Central Logistics Base (Serbia).svg Central Logistics Base
 * Command Company (Belgrade)
 * 1st Logistics Center (Belgrade)
 * 1st Depot Battalion (Gornji Milanovac)
 * 2nd Depot Battalion (Kragujevac)
 * 3rd Depot Battalion (Niš)
 * 2nd Retail Center (Niš)
 * TOC logo.tif Technical Testing Center
 * CMNOP.png Peacekeeping Operations Center
 * Војна_Полиција.gif Military Police Directorate
 * KIGlogo.png Criminal Investigative Group
 * Kobre_VP.png MP Special Operations Detachment "Cobras"
 * Intelligence and Reconnaissance Directorate
 * 224.CED.gif 224th Center for Electronic Action
 * N1sezb6e.png Military Geographic Institute "General Stevan Bošković"

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