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:

Composition

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).

Traditions

Patron saint

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