Military history of Croatia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 185. Chapters: Battles involving Croatia, Croatian war crimes, Forts in Croatia, Military of the Independent State of Croatia, Wars involving Croatia, World War II, Jasenovac concentration camp, Croatian War of Independence, Bosnian War, Yugoslav Front, Invasion of Yugoslavia, 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar, LaSva Valley ethnic cleansing, Croat-Bosniak War, Ottoman-Habsburg wars, Tvrda, Uskoks, Joint Criminal Enterprise, Timeline of the Croat-Bosniak War, Stupni Do massacre, Military Frontier, Croatian Home Guard, 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, Ahmici massacre, Gospic massacre, Long War, Stara GradiSka concentration camp, Prozor Fortress, History of the Croatian Navy, Hungary in World War I, Brod Fortress, Little War in Hungary, Hundred Years' Croatian-Ottoman War, Anti-Communist Volunteer Militia, World War II persecution of Serbs, 1st Guards Brigade, Croatian-Bulgarian wars, History of Croatian Air Force, IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS, Austro-Turkish War, Prebilovci massacre, 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama, Lora prison camp, Pandurs, DuSa massacre, Operation Corridor, Grenz infantry, Royal Croatian Home Guard, Glina massacre, 2nd Guards Brigade, Croatian Armed Forces, Mokronoge massacre, Doljani massacre, Uskok War, Slavonian Military Frontier, Balkan campaign of 1529, Hungarian campaign of 1527-1528, 7th Guards Brigade, Sisak children's concentration camp, Croatian Military Frontier, Lovrijenac, Black Legion, Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment, Operation Vrbas '92, 3rd Guards Brigade, Nehaj Fortress, 392nd Infantry Division, Green cadres, Jastrebarsko concentration camp, Knin Fortress, Monkodonja, Nesactium, Mirabella Fortress, Croatian-Ottoman Wars, GlavaS - Dinaric Fortress, Starigrad Fortress, 42. Home Guard Infantry Division. Excerpt: The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between forces loyal to the government of Croatia-which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia)-and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations in Croatia by 1992. In Croatia, the war is primarily referred to as the Homeland War (Domovinski rat) and also as the Greater-Serbian aggression (Velikosrpska agresija). In Serbian sources, War in Croatia (Rat u Hrvatskoj) is the most commonly used term. Initially, the war was waged between Croatian police forces and Serbs living in the Republic of Croatia. As the JNA came under increasing Serbian influence in Belgrade, many of its units began assisting the Serbs fighting in Croatia. The Croatian side aimed to establish a sovereign country independent of Yugoslavia, and the Serbs, supported by Serbia, opposed the secession and wanted Croatia to remain a part of Yugoslavia. The Serbs effectively sought new boundaries in areas of Croatia with a Serb majority or significant minority, and attempted to conquer as much of Croatia as possible. The goal was primarily to remain in the same state with the rest of the Serbian nation, which was interpreted as an attempt to form a "Greater Serbia" by Croats (and Bosniaks). In 2007, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) returned a guilty verdict against Milan Martic, one of Serb leaders in Croatia, stating that he colluded with Slobodan MiloSevic and others to create a "unified Serbian state". In 2011 the ICTY ruled tha...