Yugoslav People's Army

Sure.

And interestingly, he backed a half a billion dollar Kushner-led Trump Hotel project in Belgrade, which funnily enough, the site would have been the old Yugoslav Army headquarters bombed by NATO in 1999 because...

You know, time, flat circle.

We just keep going around it.

But those were people with different understanding of issues and therefore it was a long and difficult road.

The model that was first incorporated into the Yugoslav People's Army's kit was a later iteration of the M-64, the M-70.

Now to produce the M-70 in sufficient quantities, Tserevena Zastava had to scale up the process, which again they did not yet know how to do.

They have the guns, but they didn't have access to the production technology.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, a diverse republic with a blend of Bosniaks, Muslims, Serbs, Orthodox Christians, and Croats, Catholics found itself caught in the crossfire.

As the JNA, the Yugoslav National Army, sided with the Serbs, many Bosniaks and Croats viewed independence as their only way out.

The spark.

On March 3rd, 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence following a referendum that was boycotted by most Bosnian Serbs.

Little did they know this decision would ignite a powder keg of ethnic tensions.

The response was swift and violent.

Bosnian Serb forces, backed by the JNA and led by the controversial duo of Radovan Karadžić and General Ratko Mladić, seized key territories.

Their ultimate goal, the creation of a greater Serbia by annexing predominantly Serb areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina and linking them to Serbia proper.

The disparity in military hardware was staggering.

When the federal Yugoslav People's Army officially withdrew from Bosnia, they didn't take their weapons with them.

They just left them?

Worse.

Because it's not, uh, it's not, it's not as if Croatia at this time had its own army or something.

The only army was the Yugoslav national army, like the JNA.

And immediately after the Slovenians, um, also held a parliamentary election, they held theirs in April of 1990, you know, and then the Croats, um, as we just mentioned in 1990, in May 1990, the gna the yugoslav national army they announced uh an end to the tito era doctrine of general people's defense what that what general people's defense and practice meant was that each discreet republic within yugoslavia maintained a territorial defense force um that basically you know at uh absent like a general mobilization only to total war you know um the local territorial defense would be responsible for, you know, responding to, um, emergency situations as well as acting in, in, in, you know, the kind of constabulary role, um, for policing the internal situation and event of a crisis.

Um, this was, this was, this was just abolished.

that's um

it's basically um what we think of as you know the balkan wars like in our lifetime That's what kicked off the conflict cycle.

And again, autumn of 91, like the cross, the first like real kind of conventional engagement was the siege of the Bajelovar barracks, whereby the JNA Was, uh...

Aiming to continue their campaign to disarmament...