Blagoje Adžić

Adžić died on 1 March 2012, aged 79, in Belgrade. He was buried on 3 March 2012 at the Central Cemetery in Voždovac, Belgrade with full military honours.

After Veljko Kadijević resigned from his post, Adžić also served as the acting Federal Secretary of People's Defence from 8 January 1992 until 27 February 1992.

He held the position of Deputy Chief of Staff in the Yugoslav Army Headquarters until 29 September 1989 when he was promoted to Colonel General and to the post of Chief of the General Staff. He held office until 8 May 1992, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Života Panić.

After his third year in industrial school, he graduated from officer training school in 1953. After he had graduated, he also received a diploma in foreign languages from the JNA military school. He traveled to the Soviet Union and graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1969, and then graduated from JNA War College in 1973. He became Deputy Commander of the 7th Army in 1986 and held that position until 1987, when he was promoted to Lieutenant General. Adžić then graduated from the People's Defence School in 1987. He held a number of posts in the JNA including commander of the 1st and 3rd battalions of the 4th Proletariat Infantry Regiment, commander of the 25th and 26th Infantry Division and commander of 52nd Corps. He served ten other smaller posts all throughout his military career.

Blagoje Adžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Благоје Аџић, pronounced [blâɡoje ǎdʒitɕ] (listen); 2 September 1932 – 1 March 2012) was a Serbian colonel general who served as an acting Minister of Defence of the Yugoslavia government.