General Staff of the Armed Forces

General Staff of the Armed Forces is the highest military organizational structure in the Armed Forces and exercises unique command over the Armed Forces of the Republic of Albania. It is responsible for the formation of a joint and unified combat force with the Land, Navy and Air Force, capable of fulfilling the constitutional mission of the Armed Forces.

General Staff serves as the joint headquarters for the Land, Navy, and Air Force and is responsible for the joint preparation and training of all three components to accomplish all their tasks including addressing threats and risks to national security, defense programming in support of missions, operations, training, and exercises; conducting strategic threat and risk assessment and implementing measures to address them; preparing, directing, and commanding military actions; overseeing the Armed Forces, providing logistical support, drafting requirements for the development and equipping of the three services of the Armed Forces, ensuring the effective use of defense resources to make them interoperable and capable of carrying out missions in international military operations; fulfilling obligations arising from cooperation agreements, coordinating with NATO; coordinating joint exercises, and developing command, direction, communication and data reporting systems within the Armed Forces.

In times of war, the General Staff serves as headquarters for the President, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.