The Muslim Croat Civil War In Central Bosnia

Author : Charles R. Shrader
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585442615
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia written by Charles R. Shrader and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia, 1992–1994 Charles R. Shrader offers the first full-scale military history of a crucial conflict in Bosnia between two former allies. When the Bosnian Serbs and their Serbian allies attacked Bosnia-Herzegovina in March, 1992, the Bosnian Croats and Muslims collaborated to defend themselves. As Serbian pressure increased and it became clear that the West would not intervene, the two allies began to stake out their own claims. Drawing on testimony and exhibits from cases presented before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Shrader describes the organization and tactical doctrine of the Croatian Defense Forces and the Muslim-led Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides in such fields as communications, training, and logistics. He assesses not only the problems of command and control in the newly formed armies, but also the impact of criminal activity, the mujahedeen, and the intervention of peacekeeping forces. What looked to many like aggression by the Bosnian Croats, Shrader views as the adoption of an “active defense,” a doctrine embraced by U. S. forces, against a predatory Muslim force. He believes UN and European observes rushed to judgment regarding the aggressive intent of the Croatian command. Far from being the attackers, Shrader concludes, the Bosnian Croats in Central Bosnia were clearly outnumbered, outgunned, and on the defensive. Surrounded by superior Muslim forces, they barely held out in their enclaves in the Lasva Valley until a cease-fire was achieved in February 1994. Although Shrader’s work is a detailed, meticulous, analysis by a neutral expert, not everyone will find his conclusions comfortable. But every serious student of the conflict in Bosnia will have to take his history into account. Enhanced by maps, useful appendices, and a glossary, this should become the standard work on military operations in Central Bosnia and a useful case study of internal warfare and ethnic conflict.

Author : Tone Bringa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400851785
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Muslim the Bosnian Way written by Tone Bringa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have been able to follow a Bosnian community over a period of six years, during which it has undergone dramatic changes. In the late 1980s people were working hard against economic crisis. In 1990 they were full of optimism for the future. In January 1993 the village was in fear, surrounded by war on all sides. In April 1993 it was attacked by Croat forces. In October 1993 none of the Muslims in the village remained. They had either fled, been placed in detention camps, or been killed." Thus begins Tone Bringa's moving ethnographic account of Bosnian Muslims' lives in a rural village located near Sarajevo. Although they represent a majority of the population in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Muslims are still members of a minority culture in the region that was once Yugoslavia. The question of ethno- national identity has become paramount in this society, and the author focuses on religion as the defining characteristic of identity. Bringa pays particular attention to the roles that women play in defining Muslim identities, and she examines the importance of the household as a Muslim identity sphere. In so doing, she illuminates larger issues of what constitutes "nationality." This is a gripping and heartfelt account of a community that has been torn apart by ethno-political conflict. It will attract readers of all backgrounds who want to learn more about one of the most intractable wars of the late twentieth century and the people who have been so tragically affected.

Author : Edgar O'Ballance
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349136662
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War in Bosnia 1992–94 written by Edgar O'Ballance and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Muslim President of Bosnia battled for almost two years in a 'war the West could not stop', against Serb and Croat separatism, to preserve its entity, saving its sovereignty, but losing half his territory. Western rivalries and changes of policy, endless negotiations, broken promises and cease-fires, and ethnic cleansing on a barbaric scale, with the appearance of concentration camps and atrocities, were the hallmarks of the conflict, of seige, bombardment and starvation, with semi-independent war-loards confiscating a proportion of UN and other food aid for themselves. Rival American and Russian initiatives in March 1994, brought about a cease-fire in Sarajevo, which had been constantly under the television spotlight while being bombarded for almost two years, which it was hoped would spread to other parts of Bosnia in media darkness. Ethnic forward battle lines may become new frontiers.

Author : Torsten Kolind
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 877124672X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-War Identification written by Torsten Kolind and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolac, the town of departure for this book and the site where the author conducted fieldwork, is located in the south-western corner of Bosnia Herzegovina. The war in Bosnia Herzegovina (1992-95) was initially an act of aggression and territorial conquest instigated by Serbian political leaders. However, as the war progressed, it increasingly came to consist of several minor wars, one of them fought in Western Bosnia Herzegovina between Croatian and Muslim forces. This was the one that affected the inhabitants of Stolac the most. Before the war, ethnic identity in Bosnia Herzegovina was only one identity among others, and ethnic differences were embedded in everyday practices. Today, ethnic difference is all there is. The Muslims of Stolac are fully aware that as Muslims, they constitute a totally separate group - and that ethnic identity is by far the most important form of identity in present-day Bosnia Herzegovina. In that regard the nationalist project has succeeded. Such a crystallisation and explication of identity fits in well with the structurally inspired anthropology of war and violence, which theorises that the function of violence is to create unambiguous identities. However, Post-War Identities shows that for the Muslims of Stolac, the creation of unambiguous ethnic identities is only half the story.

Author : Charles R. Shrader
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442614
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia written by Charles R. Shrader and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Muslim-Croat Civil War in Central Bosnia, 1992–1994 Charles R. Shrader offers the first full-scale military history of a crucial conflict in Bosnia between two former allies. When the Bosnian Serbs and their Serbian allies attacked Bosnia-Herzegovina in March, 1992, the Bosnian Croats and Muslims collaborated to defend themselves. As Serbian pressure increased and it became clear that the West would not intervene, the two allies began to stake out their own claims. Drawing on testimony and exhibits from cases presented before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Shrader describes the organization and tactical doctrine of the Croatian Defense Forces and the Muslim-led Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides in such fields as communications, training, and logistics. He assesses not only the problems of command and control in the newly formed armies, but also the impact of criminal activity, the mujahedeen, and the intervention of peacekeeping forces. What looked to many like aggression by the Bosnian Croats, Shrader views as the adoption of an “active defense,” a doctrine embraced by U. S. forces, against a predatory Muslim force. He believes UN and European observes rushed to judgment regarding the aggressive intent of the Croatian command. Far from being the attackers, Shrader concludes, the Bosnian Croats in Central Bosnia were clearly outnumbered, outgunned, and on the defensive. Surrounded by superior Muslim forces, they barely held out in their enclaves in the Lasva Valley until a cease-fire was achieved in February 1994. Although Shrader’s work is a detailed, meticulous, analysis by a neutral expert, not everyone will find his conclusions comfortable. But every serious student of the conflict in Bosnia will have to take his history into account. Enhanced by maps, useful appendices, and a glossary, this should become the standard work on military operations in Central Bosnia and a useful case study of internal warfare and ethnic conflict.

Author : Steven L. Burg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471016
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina written by Steven L. Burg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historical, cultural and political dimensions of the crisis in Bosnia and the international efforts to resolve it. It provides a detailed analysis of international proposals to end the fighting, from the Vance-Owen plan to the Dayton Accord, with special attention to the national and international politics that shaped them. It analyzes the motivations and actions of the warring parties, neighbouring states and international actors including the United States, the United Nations, the European powers, and others involved in the war and the diplomacy surrounding it. With guides to sources and documentation, abundant tabular data and over 30 maps, this should be a definitive volume on the most vexing conflict of the post-Soviet period.

Author : Marko Attila Hoare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199365318
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War written by Marko Attila Hoare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Bosnian Muslims in World War II is an epic frequently alluded to in discussions of the 1990s Balkan conflicts, but almost as frequently misunderstood or falsified. This first comprehensive study of the topic in any language sets the record straight. Based on extensive research in the archives of Bosnia- Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia, it traces the history of Bosnia and its Muslims from the Nazi German and Fascist Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941, through the years of the Yugoslav civil war, and up to the seizure of power by the Communists and their establishment of a new Yugoslav state. The book explores the reasons for Muslim opposition to the new order established by the Nazis and Fascists in Bosnia in 1941 and the different forms this opposition took. It de- scribes how the Yugoslav Communists were able to harness part of this Muslim opposition to support their own resistance movement and revolutionary bid for power. This Muslim element in the Communists' revolution shaped its form and outcome, but ultimately had itself to be curbed as the victorious Communists consolidated their dictatorship. In doing so, they set the scene for future struggles over Yugoslavia's Muslim question.

Author : Kathrin Wiedenbauer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640709284
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States' involvement in the Bosnian war written by Kathrin Wiedenbauer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck (Politikwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: In the following, the background to the United States’ involvement in the Bosnian war, their motive and mode of mediation, and the legitimacy of their interventions as mediators shall be analyzed with special focus on the controversial issues identified above. From these case‐specific findings, some general conclusions shall be drawn with regard to the role of mediation in conflict resolution.

Author : Sumantra Bose
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850655855
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bosnia After Dayton written by Sumantra Bose and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to place the Dayton Peace Agreement within the context of Bosnia's complex historical legacy.

Author : Robert J. Donia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231101615
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bosnia and Hercegovina written by Robert J. Donia and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roles of Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs, and Croats in the events affecting the Yugoslav peoples in the twentieth century and then as Yugoslavia disintegrated in the early 1990s are vividly presented.