The Military ranks of Serbia are the military insignia used by the

Serbian Armed Forces The Serbian Armed Forces ( sr, Војска Србије, Vojska Srbije) is the military of Serbia. The President of Serbia acts as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, while administration and defence policy is carried out by the Government ...

Current ranks of the Serbian Armed Forces

Note: Serbian River Flotilla is a brigade-level brown water naval branch of the Serbian Armed Forces, subordinated to the

Serbian Army The Serbian Army ( sr-cyr, Копнена војска Србије, Kopnena vojska Srbije, lit=Serbian Land Army) is the land-based and the largest component of the Serbian Armed Forces. History Originally established in 1830 as the Army of Pr ...

Officers

The rank insignia of commissioned officers.

Enlisted

The rank insignia of non-commissioned officers and

enlisted personnel An enlisted rank (also known as an enlisted grade or enlisted rate) is, in some armed services, any rank below that of a commissioned officer. The term can be inclusive of non-commissioned officers or warrant officers, except in United States mi ...

Historical ranks

Following the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia into Kingdom SHS (later Kingdom Yugoslavia), the ranks were replaced with the

Military ranks of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Military ranks of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were the military insignia used by the Royal Yugoslav Army, Royal Yugoslav Armed Forces. It replaced the Military ranks of Serbia#Historical ranks, ranks of the Kingdom of Serbia following the unificat ...

Commissioned officer ranks

There were only three general ranks in Serbian Royal Army: General (from 1872), Army General (from 1900 to 1901) and Vojvoda (from 1901). Four general ranks were used in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1923, and lasted until 1945. There were only two types of shoulder cords: with double-headed eagle and coat of arms of Kingdom of SHS or Kingdom of Yugoslavia for Vojvoda and without for all other General ranks. The different general grades were indicated by 6-pointed stars on the cuffs. Also the backing cloth for the shoulder cords was light blue for army general (was honorary rank in the period from 1900–1901) and divisional generals and in a colour of service for brigadier general. During the Middle Ages, the Vojvoda was a military commander rank and a noble titule. In the Balkan Wars and World War I this title was used to designate the highest military rank in Serbian Army and later Royal Yugoslav Army (above the General - as equivalent of Field Marshal in other armies). This rank was introduced by the law on the ''Organization of the Army'' Kingdom of Serbia in 1901. It has been awarded only during the war for: ''special merits of top generals''. The first Vojvoda was promoted by the ''Great military decree'' of the Kingdom of Serbia on 20 October 1912. Only four people ever officially held that military rank:

Radomir Putnik Radomir Putnik ( sr, Радомир Путник; ; 24 January 1847 – 17 May 1917) was the first Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars and in the First World War. He served in every war ...

(got it in 1912),

Stepa Stepanović Stepan "Stepa" Stepanović ( sr-cyr, Степан Степа Степановић, ; – 29 April 1929) was a Serbian military commander who fought in the Serbo-Turkish War, the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the First Balkan War, the Second Balk ...

(1914),

Živojin Mišić Field Marshal Živojin Mišić ( sr-cyrl, Живојин Мишић; 19 July 1855 in Struganik – 20 January 1921 in Belgrade) was a Field Marshal who participated in all of Serbia's wars from 1876 to 1918. He directly commanded the First ...

(1914) and

Petar Bojović Petar Bojović (, ; 16 July 1858 – 19 January 1945) was a Serbian military commander who fought in the Serbo-Turkish War, the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the First Balkan War, the Second Balkan War, World War I and World War II. Following the bre ...

(1918). The rank insignia of commissioned officers.

Other ranks

The rank insignia of non-commissioned officers and

References

External links

* {{Military ranks by country Ranks