July 7th 1991, a farewell to arms

[Betonov]

On the 7th the Brioni declaration was signed, ending hostilities but also demanding that Slovenia and Croatia would freeze their independence movement for three month, while the Euroepan community devises a long term solution. They would still prefer a whole Yugoslavia than a bunch of balcan states running around.

The termes of the agreement were that Slovenia and Croatia would stop with all procedures, but would regain police and border sovereignty. The army in charge of defence would remain the Yugoslav national army (JNA) and the Slovenian teritory defence (TO) would disband. All POW's would return to home and JNA would return to barracks unhindered. The TO would also stop besieging said barracks. Slovena complied, altough the TO was not disbanded, just mothballed. Another war might start in three months.

Millosevich got what he wanted. Slovenia was out of the way and on July 18th all JNA units in Slovenia were given the orders to pull out and be redeployed in Croatian and Bosnian hotspots. The last unit left Slovenia on October 26th. When the three months passed, Slovenia continued it's independence movement unhindered. Belgrade lost all interests. The balkan wars in Croatia and Bosnia began. TO became the Slovenian army, Ljubljana became the capital of a sovereign nation and a 1000 year dream has been realised.

The baltic states were among the first to recognize Slovenia (dates vary). Sweden, Germany and Iceland were the first EC influential to do the same and they recognised us on December 19th, 1991. The rest of Europe followed on January 15th 1992 and the USA on April 7th 1992. We became members of the UN on may 22nd 1992.

The millenia long dream was finally realised. Slovenia became an independent state.

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[Betonov]

the war in numbers

Slovenia:
16 000 TO soliders and 10 000 law enforcement units (police, custom officers...)
18 killed and 182 wounded
TO captured 4 944 JNA prisoners

Yugoslavia:
35 200 JNA soldiers along with heavy weapons and equipement
44 killed and 146 wounded
JNA captured no one

12 foreigners were killed, mostly truckers

According to post-war assessments made by the JNA, its material losses amounted to 31 tanks, 22 armoured personnel carriers, 6 helicopters, 6,787 infantry weapons, 87 artillery pieces and 124 air defence weapons damaged, destroyed or confiscated.

[Penguin]

Danke again for the interesting series! :salute:

I have a question about the weapons and the equipment:
First, what happened to the stuff you conquered in the war: did it had to be returned to the JNA's depots?
Second: what happened to the weapons and equipment of the JNA when they left Slovenia: did they take it all with them, or were you allowed to keep something?

My guess would be that the JNA took it all with them, to fight in the other (upcoming) conflicts - but this would also had meant a security disadvantage for Slovenia - and you guys certainly lost any trust towards Milosevic & Co...

[Betonov]

I have a question about the weapons and the equipment:
First, what happened to the stuff you conquered in the war: did it had to be returned to the JNA's depots?
Second: what happened to the weapons and equipment of the JNA when they left Slovenia: did they take it all with them, or were you allowed to keep something?

Interesting question. The Brion declaration stated that all JNA equipement would return with JNA into the barracks. An it left sith them.
Small arms and light anti-tank and anti-aircraft were smugled into the country before the war and remained ours. Captured tanks still comprise our only armoured batallion, altough I believe some were bought from Croatia in the following years.

Short: what was captured we kept, what was not captured it went with JNA to Serbia