Branko Mamula

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Branko "Đuro" Mamula (Template:Lang-sr-Cyrl; 30 May 1921 – 19 October 2021) was a Serbian politician and Yugoslav officer who participated in World War II in Yugoslavia. He was later the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1988.

Biography

Mamula was born in Kordun in May 1921 to an ethnic Serb family. He joined League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia in 1940 and at the start of World War II in Yugoslavia in 1941 he joined the Yugoslav Partisans. In 1942, he joined Communist Party of Yugoslavia. During the war, he was put in charge of numerous units, moving through the ranks of the Partisans. Before he became the Defence Minister, he held the rank of admiral as Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army from 1979 to 1982. After becoming Defence Minister in 1983, he was promoted to Admiral of the fleet. He lived in Opatija from 1985 until 1991.[1][2]

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The entrance to Branko Mamula's former villa in Opatija, Croatia, with signpost in English: "Mamula is Gone".

Mamula remarked on the Yugoslav People's Army's (JNA) failure to respond to Slobodan Milošević's rise in Serbia, in his 2000 book Script error: No such module "Lang". (Template:Translation):

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The military leadership of the JNA bears responsibility for not carrying out a coup d'état. Instead, it allowed the nationalist leaders and the separatist behaviour of the two western republics to push the JNA into the hands of Greater Serbian nationalism, which unscrupulously utilised the Army in the inter-ethnic war, and eventually rejected it.[3]

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From 2007, he lived in Tivat, Montenegro. Mamula turned 100 in May 2021.[4] He died on 19 October 2021, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montenegro.[5]

Honours

National Honours

Foreign Honours

References

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Military offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army
10 July 1979 – 5 May 1982 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Federal Secretary of People's Defence of Yugoslavia
5 May 1982 – 15 May 1988 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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