UNPROFOR: A Perspective from the Field.

Abstract

Daily news coverage since early 1993 has invariably included a story on the latest atrocities, the breakdown of peace talks, or new dilemmas facing the beleaguered peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H). Very few North Americans even realized that a fight for survival, potentially more threatening to regional stability than B-H, was concurrently unfolding only kilometers to the north in Croatia. Then on 1 May 1995, the Croatian government, frustrated by the United Nations' (UN) lack of progress in reuniting the country under one flag, launched an attack into Sector West to recapture the Zagreb-Belgrade Autoput. This flagrant violation of the UN brokered peace agreement in Croatia once again raised the profile of the "other" Balkan conflict in the eyes of the world. For those of us who had previously served as peacekeepers in Sector West, the attack was even more remarkable as Western Slavonia was reputed to be the most stable of the three UN Protected Areas (UNPA) in Croatia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA295010

Entities

People

  • K. C. Hague

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Agreements
  • Army Personnel
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Eastern Europe
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Operations
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Training
  • United Nations
  • War
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  • Warfare

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  • Educational Psychology
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.