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Arsenije "Arso" R. Jovanović (; 1907–1948) was a Yugoslav partisan general and their foremost military commander to participate in World War II in Yugoslavia. Educated through the Yugoslav Royal Army academies, General Jovanović was one of the best-educated generals among the partisan forces in Yugoslavia, speaking French, Russian and English. His military reports distinguished him, sometimes running to as many as ten pages, and he stayed close to the partisan High Command, lecturing in the first partisan officer school in Drvar, 1944. After the war, when Josip Broz Tito broke with Moscow and Stalin in 1948, General Jovanović openly sided with the Soviet Union. He was killed by Yugoslav border guards while trying to escape to Romania. ==Biography== Arso Jovanović was born in Zavala village near Podgorica, Principality of Montenegro on March 24, 1907 into a family with a strong military tradition, belonging to the Piperi clan. His father was, until 1910, an officer of the Kingdom of Serbia army, stationed with the artillery regiment in Topčider, a suburb of Belgrade. Jovanović went to school in Nikšić, and then progressed to the Yugoslav Royal Army's military academy in Belgrade in 1924. There he was a contemporary of Velimir Terzić and Petar Ćetković, who would later also become significant commanders in the partisan forces during World War II. He graduated the top of his class, and was recommended to go to France for 'professional perfection'. He finished with top grades at the academy and went on to its higher school, graduating in 1934. By this time he had reached the rank of lieutenant and continued with his studies. He completed the additional course of the military academy in 1940, being promoted to the rank of captain on January 18, 1938 and then to first class captain on December 20, 1938. On the recommendation of military experts and the minister of defense, Milan Nedić, and in recognition of his abilities, Jovanović was transferred to become troop commander of the school of reserve infantry officers. Not long before the Nazi German invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, he was posted as commander of the school battalion of the infantry school of active officers. In the meantime, he had met and married Senka, a law student at the Belgrade Law School. They were separated when the war started, meeting up again in Drvar in 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arso Jovanović」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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