CAF Service Commands have a responsibility to enable the functioning of the CAF
Services and to prepare subordinate commands and units to carry out their tasks.
Service commands participate in professional development and have a responsibility to provide training for Active Duty and
Reserve personnel.
Croatian Defense Academy (CDA) provides military education for Armed Forces
requirements. It is responsible for conducting scientific research and publishing activities.
Support Command (SC) provides continued logistics, medical and other support to
CAF commands and units when executing
their tasks at home and abroad. It also provides functional training to CAF members
in the field of Logistics.
Special Operations Forces Command
(SOFCOM) plans and conducts special
operations and activities in order to support and protect national interests. The
Special Operations Forces Command will
be responsible for training and equipping
Special Operations Forces, doctrine development and it will also coordinate preparations for Special Operations training.
Military Representations (MRs) represent the Croatian Armed Forces and perform other professional tasks related to
participation in the activities and supervision of different Boards, Working Groups,
Standing and Interim bodies of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, the Allied Command Operations (ACO) and the Allied Command
Transformation (ACT).
Court Martial (MC) represents an autonomous and independent body who decides
on disciplinary liability of CAF members for
committing a disciplinary offence and material liability of CAF members. It will con-
sist of General Court Martial in Zagreb and
District Courts Martial in Osijek and Split.
Sub-Staff Units are established for the
purpose of developing capabilities to carry
out different tasks and support activities
that other CAF components, due to its
specificity or scope, cannot provide within
their organic entities.
Figure 2:
The CAF General Staff
structure
CAF General Staff
Croatian Armed Forces General Staff will
be organized into the following organizational units shown in Figure 2.
The Chief of the General Staff is the Head
of the CAF General Staff. He is superior to
commands, units and institutions of the
Armed Forces, the Croatian Military Representative to NATO and the EU as part of
the Permanent Representation of Croatia
to NATO, the Croatian National Military
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