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The article discusses the most challenging transformation process that the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) is engaged in.

He probably saw the whole thing coming, the unfolding disaster compressed into a micro-second as the future civil war flitted across the video screen of his brain. Vlade Divac and […]

Texts of statements approved August26-27, 1992, at the London Conference on Yugoslavia, London, United Kingdom. The Conference was co-chaired by UK Prime Minister Major as the Head of State/Government of [...]

March 10, 1992 The United States and the European Community (EC) issue a joint declaration in support of ongoing efforts by the United Nations and the EC to achieve a [...]

Statement by the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations before the UN Security Council, New York City, May 30, 1992. Mr. President, the aggression of the Serbian regime and [...]

The conflict in Yugoslavia features numerous armed groups in a complex situation. The various military forces of both Serbia and Croatia have different political affiliations, each with its own objectives. Croatia has five groups: the Internal Affairs Ministry units, the Croatian National Guard, the Wolves of Vukovar, the Zebras, the Black Legion and the Croatian Defense Union. The Serbs have six: the Yugoslav People's Army, the Marticevci, the Serbian Guard, the Serbian Volunteer Guard, the Chetniks and Dusan Silni. Peace making efforts depend on dealing with a single entities to represent Croatia and Serbia.

The UN Protection Force will be sentto war zones in Croatia following approval from the Security Council on Feb 22,1992. The peacekeeping force is granted a year's mandate and it is likely that it will also engage in political mediation even though this may complicate its duties. The UN force will probably extend its stay if the Croatian-Serbian conflict is not resolved immediately. The search for a political solution is paramount and the UN force can be a vital factor politically.

The wonder is not that Serbia attacked Kosovo, but that it waited so long. Mr. Almond teaches modern history at Oriel College, Oxford. 'IT began in Kosovo. There it will [...]

Good evening. Last week, the warring factions in Bosnia reached a peace agreement as a result of our efforts in Dayton, Ohio, and the support of our European and Russian [...]

RAISING a clenched fist, shedding tears and kissing the flag, Croatia's septubel 'Republic of Serbian Krajina'. In just three days, starting on August 4th, Croatia's Operation Storm had overrun Krajina [...]

Remarks on the 'MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour,' Washington, DC, August 28, 1992 Q: Is it disheartening to come back to Washington and realize that just a few hours after the big meeting [...]

We have gathered here today because, as members of the family of nations--East and West, Muslim, Christian or Jew--we are compelled to help the peoples of the former Yugoslavia in [...]

Unmanned vehicles ARIE EGOZI TEL AVIV Serbians set for Orbiter training Serbian soldiers are expected to arrive soon in Israel for training to operate an Orbiter unmanned aircraft system to [...]

The EU has welcomed the arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic as 'a very positive development'. After more than a decade on the run, Karadzic was located [...]

Kosovo will go it alone within months With status talks between the Serbian government and the Kosovan Albanian leadership exhausted, the stage is set for Kosovo soon to declare independence [...]

Restructuring IGOR SALINGER / BELGRADESerbia has reorganised its air force with the formation of 204 air wing at Batajnica air base near Belgrade on 15 November. A second wing will [...]

Think hard about it. I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villains. General Colin Powell The 1999 NATO war against Serbia poses an intellectual challenge for the anti-interventionist […]

A DECADE after the disappearance of the USSR, we seem to be inching toward a debate over the fundamental tenets of U.S. defense policy. Inside and outside the Pentagon, questions [...]

EVEN by the unspeakable standards of recent Balkan history, it was grisly news. The Belgrade authorities said on June 3rd that investigators were examining scores of bodies from several mass [...]

The Agency didn't play a lead role in ousting Milosevic. Thank God AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN EARLY 1999, three of Slobodan Milosevic's ministers breathlessly announced that they had discovered [...]

By the end of 1999, the peacekeepers in Kosovska-Mitrovica saw the fragile peace deteriorate in this ethnically divided city. In January 2000, tensions passed the boiling point as Serbs and [...]

Dateline Belgrade, 30 March 1999: At 0400, Greenwich Mean Time, NATO bombs began falling on this capital city of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). War has not been declared, [...]

PODUJEVO THE Scots Dragoon Guards react calmly when a Serbian lorry roars towards them out of the night, down the spooky no-man's-land which separates their checkpoint from Serbia proper--and it [...]

Belgrade--The Serbian legislature accepted NATO's demands on June 3rd, the feast of Corpus Christi (in the Latinrite Church). That evening four Eucharistic celebrations, previously scheduled by Pope John Paul for […]

The last enclave of Serbs in southern Kosovo huddles atop a hillside in the town of Orahovac, a few miles north of Prizren. In a medieval warren of gray stone [...]

The good news from the Balkans is that on September 15 rival and sometimes warring political parties in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) put down their weapons and [...]