Arso Jovanović
Arsenije "Arso" Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Арсо Јовановић; 24 March 1907 – 12 August 1948) was a Yugoslav partisan general and one of the country's foremost military commanders during World War II in Yugoslavia.
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| Birth name | Arsenije Jovanović |
| Nickname(s) | Arso |
| Born | 24 March 1907 Zavala near Podgorica, Montenegro |
| Died | 12 August 1948 (aged 41) |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia |
| Service/ | DF Yugoslavia, FPR of Yugoslavia |
| Years of service | 1924–1948 |
| Rank | Colonel General |
| Commands held | Chief of the General Staff |
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Educated through the Yugoslav Royal Army academies, 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 Tito–Stalin Split in 1948, Jovanović openly sided with the Soviet Union. He was killed by Yugoslav border guards while trying to escape to Romania with two other Montenegrin dissidents, Vlado Dapčević and Branko Petričević, who were captured alive.