 Galić was born in the hamlet of Goleš, in the municipality of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Prior to the beginning of the war he was an officer in the Yugoslav National Army.On 7 September 1992 he became the commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps ("Sarajevsko-romanijski korpus"), the unit of the VRS which besieged Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.