Anton Tus (; 22 November 1931 – 4 September 2023) was a Croatian general who served as head of the

Yugoslav Air Force The Air Force and Air Defence ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздушна одбрана, Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazdušna odbrana ; abbr. sh-Cyrl-Latn, label=none, separator=/, РВ и ПВ� ...

between 1985 and 1991 and was the first Chief of Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces from 1991 to 1992 during the

Croatian War of Independence The Croatian War of Independence) and (rarely) "War in Krajina" ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рат у Крајини, Rat u Krajini) are used. was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croats, Croat forces loyal to the Governmen ...

Biography

A graduate of the Yugoslav Air Force Academy, Tus spent most of his career serving in the Yugoslav Air Force. From 1968 to 1969 he was commander of the 204th Fighter Aviation Regiment stationed at Batajnica Air Base. After that he was commander of the 5th Air Force and Air Defence Corps based in

SR Croatia The Socialist Republic of Croatia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Hrvatska, Социјалистичка Република Хрватска), commonly abbreviated as SR Croatia and referred to as simply Croatia, was a ...

. In 1985 he was promoted to the head of the

and held that post until his defection in May 1991 amid the

breakup of Yugoslavia After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav ...

. From September 1991 he was the first Chief of the General Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces, until November 1992, when he opposed

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Gojko Šušak's

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towards

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. He was succeeded in that post by general Janko Bobetko. Between 1992 and 1995 he was

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Franjo Tuđman Franjo Tuđman (14 May 1922 – 10 December 1999) was a Croatian politician and historian who became the first president of Croatia, from 1990 until his death in 1999. He served following the Independence of Croatia, country's independe ...

's chief military advisor, before becoming head of Defence Ministry's Office for International Cooperation between 1995 and 2001. In 2001 he was appointed to the post of the chief of the Croatian Mission to

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until retirement in 2005. Tus died in

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on 4 September 2023, at the age of 91.

Honors

* Grand Order of King Petar Krešimir IV * Order of Duke Domagoj * Order of Nikola Šubić Zrinski * Order of the Croatian Trefoil

References

External links

Anton Tus biography
at Vojska.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Tus, Anton 1931 births 2023 deaths Croatian army officers Military personnel of the Croatian War of Independence Order of Duke Domagoj recipients Order of Nikola Šubić Zrinski recipients Generals of the Yugoslav People's Army Members of the Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia People from Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Yugoslav Partisans members