Balkan Battlegrounds: A Military History of the Yugoslav Conflict, Opseg 1

Naslovnica
Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Russian and European Analysis, 2002
Balkan Battlegrounds provides a military history of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia between 1990 and 1995. It was produced by two military analysts in the Central Intelligence agency who tracked military developments in the region throughout this period and then applied their experience to producing an unclassified treatise for general use ...
 

Sadržaj


Ostala izdanja - Prikaži sve

Uobičajeni izrazi i fraze

Popularni odlomci

Stranica 43 - Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Stranica 120 - And, that being so, the less you and I worry about the form of government they set up, the better. That is for them to decide. What interests us is, which of them is doing most harm to the Germans?
Stranica 144 - Houses and whole villages reduced to ashes, unarmed and innocent populations massacred en masse, incredible acts of violence, pillage and brutality of every kind — such were the means which were employed and are still being employed by the Serbo-Montenegrin soldiery, with a view to the entire transformation of the ethnic character of regions inhabited exclusively by Albanians.
Stranica 74 - As regards the composition of the officer corps and promotion to senior commanding and directing posts in the Yugoslav People's Army, the principle of the most proportional representation of the Republics and Autonomous Provinces shall be applied.
Stranica 194 - For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind : it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Stranica 123 - ... principle, which would mean a slight Muslim dominance; his Serb counterpart Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Serbian Democratic Party, played upon fears of an Islamic Republic. In a chilling speech to the Parliament on October 14, 1991, Karadzic essentially promised obliteration of the Muslims and Bosnia: "Do not think that you will not perhaps make the Muslim people disappear, because the Muslims cannot defend themselves if there is war.
Stranica 44 - ... the few who went into battle undefeated. Six centuries later, again we are in battles and quarrels. They are not armed battles, though such things should not be excluded yet.
Stranica 395 - Our objective remains attaining the compliance of the Bosnian Serbs to cease attacks on Sarajevo and other Safe Areas; the withdrawal of Bosnian Serbs heavy weapons from the exclusion zone around Sarajevo, without delay; complete freedom of movement for UN forces and personnel and NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] and unrestricted use of Sarajevo airport.
Stranica 323 - Most of our contributions are channeled through international organizations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the...
Stranica 119 - Why should I be a minority in your state when you can be a minority in...

Bibliografski podaci