О ОДАБИРАЊУ И ШКОЛОВАЊУ ОФИЦИРСКОГ КАДРА ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКЕ АРМИЈЕ У ПРВИМ ПОСЛЕРАТНИМ ГОДИНАМА
ON SELECTION AND EDUCATION OFFICERS OF THE YUGOSLAV ARMY IN THE FIRST POST-WAR YEARS

Author(s): Marko B. Miletić
Subject(s): Military history, Military policy
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: Yugoslav Army; personnel policy; education; Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Summary/Abstract: The processes of selection and education of the officer cadre in the first post-war years were under the strict control of the Political Administration, i.e. the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. All its views on the selection and education of the leadership personnel, were adopted, although in some cases they were not appropriate. In this respect, compliance with professional requirements was secondary, and the Party and nonprofessional elements took precedence. In the early post-war years, Yugoslavia succeeded in building a military school system in which it trained its officers from the lowest to the highest positions, thus taking the first step toward organizing a modern-type army. However, most of the non-commissioned officers went through the officer schools, where they acquired the most basic military theoretical knowledge, which meant that they were not fully prepared for all the challenges of modern warfare.

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