01 kol Yugoslav Army
Jugoslavenska Narodna Armija (JNA), or ‘Yugoslav People’s Army’, in existence from 1945 until 1992.
As part of this organization’s planning it had a detailed plan for the invasion and occupation of Sofia, in Bulgaria, which was a member of the Warsaw Pact. No doubt the placing of spies, provocateur and guerrilla or special forces would have featured in them. Doubtlessly they had similar plans for all the surrounding countries that would have been backed by the Diplomatic initiatives of the Yugoslav foreign ministry. This aspect of their designs could have faltered badly as by the the late 1980’s Yugoslavia had a diminished itinerary of Embassies, most of them being diplomatically inert Consulates of Limited Responsibilities. This legacy haunted President Slobodan Milošević and it placed him in the position of having to endure NATO bombing instead of participating in diplomatic negotiations. Ultimately, it was Serbia’s longstanding corruption and indiscipline that caused it the lack of a diplomatic dimension, as vested in the Embassy, that lost it Kosovo.
