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Main Staff Of The Serbian Army Of Krajina
The Main Staff of the Serbian Army of Krajina () was the highest professional and Staff (military), staff organ for preparation and use of the Serbian Army of Krajina in war and in peace. The Main Staff was formed on 16 October 1992, and its activities started on 27 November of the same year. During its existence, the Main Staff had constant problems with personnel. Organization The Main Staff consisted of the following sectors: * Operational activities * Informational * Religious and justice affairs * Logistical support * Security * Intelligence * Air Force and Air Defence * Recruitment and mobilization * Army Inspectorate The Main Staff had direct control over: * 2nd Guards Motorized Brigade * 105th Aviation Brigade * 44th Artillery-Rocket Brigade of the Air Defence * 75th Mixed Artillery Brigade * 75th Rear Base * Training Center "1300 Corporals" * Military Police Battalion * Communications Battalion * House of the Army * Army Library * Army Band * Training Center " ...
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Active Duty
Active duty, in contrast to reserve duty, is a full-time occupation as part of a military force. Indian The Indian Armed Forces are considered to be one of the largest active service forces in the world, with almost 1.42 million Active Standing Army. An additional 2.20 million reserve forces can be activated in a few weeks depending on the situation under the order of the President of India who is the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces of India. This does not include the additional 1 million troops of the Paramilitary who too are an active force whose full-time responsibility is to guard the sovereignty of the nation from internal and external threats. Israel In the Israel Defense Forces, there are two types of active duty: regular service (), and active reserve duty (, abbr. ''Shamap''). Regular service refers to either mandatory service (), according to the laws of Israel, or standing army service (), which consists of paid NCOs and officers. Active reserve service r ...
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Staff (military)
A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the execution of their plans and orders, especially in case of multiple simultaneous and rapidly changing complex operations. They are organised into functional groups such as administration, logistics, operations, intelligence, training, etc. They provide multi-directional flow of information between a commanding officer, subordinate military units and other stakeholders.PK Mallick, 2011Staff System in the Indian Army: Time for Change Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi, vol 31. A centralised general staff results in tighter top-down control but requires larger staff at hea ...
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Knin
Knin () is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka (Croatia), Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagreb and Split, Croatia, Split. Knin rose to prominence twice in history, as the capital of both the Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102), medieval Kingdom of Croatia and briefly of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina within the newly independent Croatia, Republic of Croatia for the duration of the Croatian War of Independence from 1991 to 1995. Etymology The name is likely derived from the Illyrian language, Illyrian ''Ninia''. According to an alternative explanation, offered by Franz Miklosich and Petar Skok, the name - derived from a Slavic root ''*tьn-'' ("to cut", "to chop") - means "cleared forest". The medieval names of Knin include ; ; . The Latin name is still used as a titular see, titular episcopal see, the Diocese of Tinum. History Ancient The are ...
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Mile Novaković
Mile Novaković (Serbian Cyrillic: Миле Новаковић; 29 April 1950 – 14 September 2015) was a Croatian Serb major general active in the Serbian Army of Krajina and in the Armed Forces of FR Yugoslavia, during and after the Croatian War of Independence. He was tried in absentia by a Croatian court in 1995 for war crimes, being sentenced to 20 years in jail. In 2003, another Yugoslav Army official was apprehended by Macedonian officials citing an Interpol warrant, as he tried to cross into the country. This man was released after the mistaken identity was discovered. The real Novaković remained at large in Serbia. In 2010, Novaković testified at the trial of Momčilo Perišić at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Perišić had previously promoted Novaković to the rank of Major General in the Armed Forces of FR Yugoslavia in 1993. Perišić was acquitted upon appeal of all charges on 28 February 2013. Death Novaković suffered a heart ...
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Milan Čeleketić
Milan Čeleketić ( sr-cyr, Милан Челекетић; born 12 August 1946) is a Serbian former major general active in the Serbian Army of Krajina and in the Armed Forces of FR Yugoslavia during and after the Croatian War of Independence. Čeleketić was the commander of the 18th Western Slavonian Corps of the Serbian Army of Krajina. He became Chief of the Main Staff of the Serbian Army of Krajina on 22 February 1994. After the fall of Western Slavonia, he resigned as Chief on 17 May 1995. After Operation Storm, he lived in Banja Luka Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city in Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is the tr ... for a time. References 1946 births Living people People from Kikinda Military of Serbian Krajina Serbian soldiers Yugoslav soldiers Officers of the Yugoslav People's Ar ...
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Mile Mrkšić
Mile Mrkšić ( sr-cyrl, Миле Мркшић; 1 May 1947 – 16 August 2015) was a colonel of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in charge of the unit involved in the Battle of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991. He was convicted for not preventing the mass killing of 264 Croats that followed the fall of Vukovar, and sentenced to 20 years. Biography Mrkšić was born in Kozarac near Vrginmost on 1 May 1947. After the battle of Vukovar, he was promoted to General in the JNA and later Commander in Chief of the Serbian Army of Krajina (SVK) in May 1995. After the fall of Krajina in August 1995, he was denied entry into Serbia for a while since many blamed him for the military defeat. At one point he was placed under house arrest, sent into early retirement and ended up selling produce at a green market. Mrkšić was indicted in 1995, along with Miroslav Radić, Veselin Šljivančanin and Slavko Dokmanović, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the ...
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Krajina Army Territorial Division
Krajina () is a Slavic toponym, meaning 'country' or 'march'. The term is related to ''kraj'' or ''krai'', originally meanings ''land'', ''country'' or ''edge''Rick Derksen (2008), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', Brill: Leiden-Boston, page 244 and today denoting a region or province, usually remote from urban centers. Etymology The Serbo-Croatian word ''krajina'' derives from Proto-Slavic *''krajina'', derived from *''krajь'', related to *''krojiti'' 'to cut';''*krajina'' in Oleg Trubačóv (ed.) (1974–), ''Этимологический словарь славянских языков'' tymological dictionary of Slavic languages Moscow: Nauka, volume 12, pages 87-88 the original meaning of ''krajina'' thus seems to have been 'place at an edge, fringe, borderland', as reflected in the meanings of Church Slavonic , '. In Old East Slavic: Ѹкраина/Ꙋкраина, romanized: Oukraina ˈkrɑjinɑ appears in the Hypatian Codex of c. 1425 under th ...
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Serbian Army Of Krajina
The Serbian Army of Krajina (SAK, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Srpska vojska Krajine, Српска војска Крајине, abbr. SVK), also known as the Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina or Krajina Serbian Army, was the armed forces of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK). The SVK consisted of ground and air elements. Created through the merger of the Territorial Defense of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (TORSK), units of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and the Krajina Militia, the SVK was officially established on 19 March 1992. Responsible for the security of the RSK, its area of responsibility covered an area of some 17,028 km² at its peak, as it was located entirely inland it thus had no naval forces. The SVK, along with the state of RSK, ceased to exist in 1995 following the Croatian military offensive Operation Storm. Organization Commanders-in-Chief Commanders Structure * 105th Aviation Brigade * 44th Air defense rocket brigade * 75th Mixed ...
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105 Aviation Brigade Patch
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ...
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105th Aviation Brigade
The 105th Aviation Brigade () was formed from the disbanded Yugoslav 105th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment in the spring of 1993 by the Serbian Army of Krajina at Udbina Airport. Its accurate organization is unknown, and it's not exactly clear whether the brigade was part of Republika Srpska Air Force due to the aircraft had same roundels. It consisted from at least one combat squadron nicknamed "Kobre" (''Cobras'' - same as former 249th Squadron) and 56th Mixed Helicopter Squadron. The brigade was equipped with 12 Soko J-21 Jastreb, J-21 Jastreb light ground-attack aircraft, at least two G-2 Galeb trainer jets, 4 Aérospatiale Gazelle, Soko Gazelle helicopters and four Aérospatiale Gazelle, Gazelle Gama anti-tank helicopters, two Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-8T transport helicopters, one Antonov An-2 and number of Utva 66, Utva 75, J-20 Kraguj and Zlin Z-526 aircraft. Aircraft from Udbina airport have taken part in wars in both War in Croatia, Croatia and War in Bosnia, Bosnia because th ...
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1300 Corporals
1300 corporals ( sr-cyr, 1300 каплара) is the name for the 1300 untrained officers that were sent as a reinforcement to the First Army (Serbia), Serbian First Army at the Battle of Kolubara. At the start of the World War I, war, many young men from both Serbia and Austria-Hungary left school and made themselves available to the High Command of the Royal Serbian Army, Serbian army. They were sent to the military school in Skopje. Even though their training wasn't yet completed, the development of the events forced the High Command to dispatch them to battle. The Serbian army was in retreat, demoralized, in shortage of ammunition, Belgrade was in the enemy's hands, so the world already came to terms with the complete breakdown of Serbia. All available forces were needed for the crucial battle, which is why the corporal ranks were distributed to the youngsters in Skopje (hence the name), and were sent for Kolubara and Suvobor the next morning. There, the Serbian army, led b ...
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