The Yugoslav Wars (1): Slovenia & Croatia 1991-95

Osprey’s examination of Slovenia and Croatia’s armies’ involvement in the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1995). Following the death of the Yugoslavian strongman President Tito in 1980, the several semi-autonomous republics and provinces that he had welded into a nation in 1945 moved inexorably towards separation. After a deceptively clean break for independence by Slovenia in 1991, the world watched a series of other wars rip through this modern European state…