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The Yugoslav People's Army (JNA/ ЈНА; Macedonian, Montenegrin and Serbian: Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and Bosnian: Jugoslavenska narodna armija; Slovene: Jugoslovanska ljudska armada, JLA), also called the Yugoslav National Army, [1] [2] was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its antecedents ...
The Yugoslav Partisans, [note 1] [11] or the National Liberation Army, [note 2] officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, [note 3] [12] was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
The Yugoslav Ground Forces (Serbo-Croatian: Kopnena Vojska – KoV, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Копнена Војска – КоВ) was the ground forces branch of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) from 1 March 1945 until 20 May 1992 when the last remaining remnants were merged into the Ground Forces of the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, under the threat of sanctions.
The Austro-Hungarian Army exited the First World War after the Armistice of Villa Giusti was struck with the Kingdom of Italy on 3 November 1918. A National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs had been formed in Zagreb in the previous month with the aim of representing the kingdoms of Croatia-Slavonia and Dalmatia, the condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Slavic-populated areas of ...
Yugoslav Army, Army of Yugoslavia, or Military of Yugoslavia may refer to: Royal Yugoslav Army (1918–1941), the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslav National Liberation Army (1941–1945), the Yugoslav communist-led resistance movement during World War II best known as the Partisans
The 3rd Army of the Yugoslav Partisans was a Partisan army that operated in Yugoslavia during the last months of the Second World War. The Army was created on 1 January 1945, when Chief Commander Marshal Josip Broz Tito converted the guerilla National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia in a more regular Yugoslav Army.
' Army [of] Yugoslavia '), [1] [2] created from the remnants of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), the military of SFR Yugoslavia. The rump state, then named Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, participated in the Yugoslav Wars with limited direct intervention of its own armed forces. Following the end of the Wars and the constitutional reforms of ...
Through the history of Yugoslavia, the defence ministry which was responsible for defence of the country was known under several different names: the Ministry of the Army and Navy [a] for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1941, the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence [b] for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1992 and the Ministry of Defence for the Federal ...