Civil-Military Relations in the former Yugoslavia (the case of Slovenia)
Civil-Military Relations in the former Yugoslavia (the case of Slovenia)

Summary/Abstract: The disintegration of SFRY in 1991-1992 produced a highly uneven distribution of the former federal military assets and defense industries and the burdens of maintaining the previously integrated, relatively large and expensive military-industrial complex. Unlike in the Czechoslovak case, for example, no peaceful, orderly and equitable distribution of federal stocks of weapons, equipment and facilities among the new national armies took place. But Slovenia had the luck that the armed hostilities on its soil in late June to early July 1991 lasted for only about seven days and did not cause many casualties and much direct economic damage. However, this brief armed conflict with the much better armed JNA influenced very considerably Slovenia’s subsequent defense and security policy as well as its civil-military relations.

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