Major General
Mitar Kovač
Митар Ковач
Kovač in 2008
Personal details
Born (1959-07-27) 27 July 1959
Ulog, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partyMI–GIN (2023–present)
Alma materMilitary Academy
Occupation
  • Politician
  • general
  • professor
Military service
Allegiance
Branch/service
Years of service1984–2014
RankMajor General
Battles/warsBosnian War

Mitar Kovač (Serbian Cyrillic: Митар Ковач; born 27 July 1959) is a Serbian politician, university professor and retired major general who was elected to the National Assembly in the 2023 parliamentary election.

Early life, education and military career

Kovač was born on 27 July 1959 in Ulog, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia.[1]

He graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade in 1981, then completed postgraduate studies in military sciences in 1990, and in 1998 he received his doctorate in the field of war skills as the youngest doctor of military sciences. He also completed the School of National Defense, as well as general staff training in 2002.[1]

He briefly fought in the Bosnian War as a member of the Army of Republika Srpska.[2]

He worked as a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Research and was president of the editorial board of the magazine Vojno delo for two terms.[1]

From 2004 to 2010, he was the head of the Directorate for Strategic Planning in the Ministry of Defense, and from 2010 to 2013, he was the head of the Directorate for Planning and Development of the Serbian Armed Forces in the General Staff. Between 2013 and 2014, he was the head of the Directorate for Strategic Planning once again.[3]

He retired on 22 December 2014 at his personal request.[1] As a defense military expert, he appeared at the trial of Ratko Mladić at the ICTY.[4]

He is a professor at the Faculty of Project and Innovation Management.[3]

Political career

He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2023 parliamentary election as a candidate of the right-wing populist We–The Voice from the People political organization.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mitar Kovač". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  2. ↑ "Gde si bio kad je grmelo - Vreme". Vreme (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  3. 1 2 "Prof. dr Mitar Kovač". PMC Fakultet (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  4. ↑ Jungvirth, Goran (2015-11-16). "Vještak obrane o ratu u BiH kao "građanskom", poricao opsadu Sarajeva". Radio Slobodna Evropa (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  5. ↑ "Šta je tajna Nestorovićevog uspeha: od medicine, preko numerologije do politike". BBC News na srpskom (in Serbian (Latin script)). 2023-12-18. Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  6. ↑ Beograd, N1 (2023-12-18). "Protivnici Zapada, teoretičari zavere, kritičari vlasti i opozicije: Ko su budući poslanici u ime Nestorovićeve liste?". N1 (in Serbian). Retrieved 2024-01-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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