The military colleges were established immediately after the end of the Second World War. The assumptions about their establishment came at the suggestion of Soviet advisors considering that a similar organization of military schools existed in the USSR. They were created in 1945, by disbanding the Military Academy as a general military institution and reformulating it into separate military colleges by gender. In the period from 1945. to 1948, instead of the originally planned five colleges a total of 19 military colleges were established by types of branches and services. First schools of command direction were formed, and only later of technical direction. Their task was to create the conditions for filling the Yugoslav army with new officers educated on modern bases. However due to the adoption of Resolution IB there is a gradual rejection of the Soviet model of schooling. Gradually there is a reliance on ones own strengths and experiences both in training and education as well as in the construction of the army and military doctrine as a whole. The decline of interest in military academies also coincided with the fact that there were no more candidates for hat type of education in the ranks of the JNA. An additional problem was the fact that the opening of the college required large material expenditures as well as new difficulties for securing adequate teaching staffing in order to successfully conduct classes in them. Therefore the deputy Minister of National Defense Colonel-General Ivan Gosnjak by order of May 9 1950 decided to reformulate the names of Military Colleges into Schools for Active Officers in the spirit of Serbo-Croatian language.