Milan Mojsilović ( sr-cyr, Милан Мојсиловић; born 3 August 1967) is the Chief of General Staff of the

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, having been appointed on 14 September 2018.

Military career

Mojsilović was born in

Kosovska Mitrovica Mitrovica (Albanian language, Albanian Definiteness, indefinite Albanian morphology#Nouns (declension), form: ''Mitrovicë''; sr-Cyrl, Митровица, Mitrovica), also referred to as Kosovska Mitrovica ( sr-Cyrl, Косовска Митр� ...

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, on 3 August 1967. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1991, and later from the Staff Command College and School of National Defense in 1998 and 2006, respectively. Among more important international courses, he attended the executive program which lasted for four months at the European College for Security Studies. After the start of the war in Croatia, Milan Mojsilović took part in fighting in the

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region and remained stationed in the vicinity of the city of

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as the commander of a tank platoon until the spring of the following year. In March and April in 1992 his tank unit again saw action in the

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region and the city of

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, where his armored vehicle was hit twice by the Croatian units stationed there. After JNA troops left

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in May 1992, he took up new duties in the units stationed in Serbia. Upon the commencement of the Kosovo war in March in 1999 he was transferred to the 243. mechanized brigade in

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, where he fought and served as the chief operations officer. After the Yugoslav wars, he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Serbian Armed Forces Operations Command, Deputy Commander of the Joint Operational Command in the General Staff and the Commander of the Land Army. From October 2013 until October 2014, in addition to the duty of the Head of the Military Representative in the Mission of the Republic of Serbia to

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, he served as Chair of the International Advisory Group at the Center for Security Cooperation "RACVIAC". From 2013 to 2017, he served as the Head of the Military Representation in the Mission of the Republic of Serbia to the NATO in Brussels. From March 2017 to September 2018, he served as acting Assistant Defense Minister for defense policy. On 14 September 2018, he was appointed by the

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as the Chief of General Staff of the

, following the retirement of Ljubiša Diković.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mojsilovic, Milan Living people Chiefs of the Serbian General Staff 1967 births Military personnel from Mitrovica, Kosovo Serbian generals