The General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces (Serbian: Генералштаб Војске Србије, romanized: Generalštab Vojske Srbije) is the highest authority within the Serbian Armed Forces and a significant command entity with numerous organizational units under its direct command.
General Staff possess operational authority over the armed forces.
Its primary roles and responsibilities include: Members of five most senior ranking officers who make strategic and tactical preparations and procedures for use during peacetime and war.
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).
[1][2] The General Staff's slava or its saint's feast day is Saint George known as Đurđevdan.