Sistem ONO i sigurnost SFRJ
The System of Total National Defence and the Security of SFRY

Summary/Abstract: The Yugoslav security system is substantively founded on the system of total national defence and social self-protection. The principal characteristic of that authentic defence system is the establishment of a mechanism of social self-defence and self-protection, wherein the chief protagonists of defence and protection are not just the state and its specialized organs (the army and the police) but also the whole society (working people and citizens). The pluricentrically organized system of total national defence comprises mechanisms of citizens’ self-defence in all segments of the social structure. Within this concept, every individual and collective subject of defence Is assigned particular tasks in one part of that system, in the performance of which he enjoys a high degree of autonomy, but he is also obliged to co-ordinate his activity with those of other subjects in other parts of the system. This security system has been designed for self-reliance in struggle. Nonetheless, this does not prevent Yugoslavia from attaching special importance to relations with her neighbours, as one of the major components of security.

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