Zivojin Misic was the Serbian and Yugoslav dukes (Field Marshal).
At the very beginning of his forty years of service, he was a participant in the Serbian-Turkish wars (1876-1878), as a sergeant-sergeant, later a lieutenant. In those wars he gained his first war experience. In addition to the four-year Artillery School, he completed the Austro-Hungarian shooting school in Bruk on Lajta and a two-year preparation for the general staff. He also took part in the brief Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885. For six full years, in addition to his regular duties, he taught a strategy at the Military Academy.
After the May overthrow, he was forced to retire in the rank of general colonel, since he was considered too close to the diminished dynasty of Obrenovic, but was reactivated in 1909 during the annexation crisis on a personal request by the Chief of the Supreme Command of General Radomir Putnik, who made him his assistant. Mišić helped General Putnik draw up a Serbian war plan in the eventual war with Austria-Hungary.
