Jugoslawische Verteidigungskonzeptionen
Yugoslav Defense Concepts
Author(s): Author Not SpecifiedSubject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde e.V.
Keywords: Yugoslav Army; Yugoslav security policy; Rajko Tanasković;
Summary/Abstract: Yugoslavia will defend itself against any aggression and accordingly strengthen its defense efforts con-tinuously - this is the recurrent tenor of speeches by Yugoslav statesmen and military officials, including Tito himself. Last year, General Džemil Šarac, Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief Political Officer, until early 1979 in the Yugoslav People's Army until early 1979, emphasized in Zagreb daily "Vjesnik" (April 21, 1979), "Aggression remains aggression, and an occupier remains an occupier, no matter under which flag and slogan he sails and under what pretext he justifies his conquests tried. "General Rahmija Kadenić, head of the military academies (see Borba, April 12, 1979), expressed himself in the same way. The growing importance of the defense of the country in the face of the strained international situation naturally gives the armed forces an ever-increasing influence, which may be of great im-portance to us. a. in the assumption of important switching points in party and state by high officers to expression.
Journal: Osteuropa
- Issue Year: 30/1980
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 50-57
- Page Count: 8
- Language: German