Contents

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Acronyms

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Chapters

1. Introduction: Strategy and Crime

Something to explain: demographic change

'Slobo', the Serbian project and the adversaries

Strategy

Crime and war

Establishing jurisdiction

2. Political and Historical Background

Historical and political context

The road to breakdown

3. The Means: Armed Forces - the Life, Death and Life after Death of the JNA

The role and character of the JNA in the SFRY

Serbianization: Milošević and the military

General Perišić and the persistence of ambiguities within the army

The Serbian ghosts of the JNA: the VJ and the Krajina and Bosnian Serb forces

Paramilitary forces and a Praetorian Guard: politics and purpose

4. The Means: Capability and Calculation — the Superiority Syndrome and the Gulf Conflict

Arms and Yugoslavia: mountains of weapons

The arms embargo: philosophical and technical aspects

The superiority syndrome

Assessing international engagement: linking the Gulf War to the Yugoslav crisis

'Balkan Storm' apprehension

5. Means and Ends: the Strategy of Ethnic Cleansing

Preparation and provocation

Takeover and the use of force

Concentration camps

Elimination

6. The Ends: the Quest for New Borders in the West - Croatia

The new state project in the West: carving the borders of a mini Yugoslavia for the Serbs

Krajina, central Dalmatia and the Serbian stranglehold

Eastern Slavonia and the siege of Vukovar

Southern Dalmatia and the siege of Dubrovnik

Ceasefire and Storm: the decay and demise of the Serbian campaign in Croatia

7. The Ends: the Quest for New Borders in the West – Bosnia and Hercegovina

Serbian strategic preparation: the campaign in Bosnia and Hercegovina

Serbian operations and strategic limitation in Bosnia and Hercegovina

Sieges, safe areas and Serbian strategy

Deliberate force and air defenseless

8. The Ends: the Quest for Old Borders in the South – Kosovo

The southern front: from ground operations to a two-level battle of Kosovo

The spring cleansing

Facing NATO: decoys and deception, communication and control

9. The Neighborhood Adversaries: Aims, Strategies and Operations

Slovenia: armed forces, aims and approach

Croatia: armed forces, aims and approaches

Bosnia and Hercegovina: armed forces, aims and approaches

Kosovo: armed forces, aims and approaches

10. The International Adversaries: Aims, Strategy and Operations

Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina and the testing of international strategic ingenuity

The road to Rambouillet: the failure to deter the Kosovo campaign

Struggling strategically with limited war: NATO's Kosovo air campaign

Why Milošević caved in when he did

11. Conclusion: Means, Ends and Justice

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