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in Ogulin headed by Major General Marijan Mareković and IZM Slavonia in Đakovo
headed by Lieutenant General Petar Stipetić. Th e Information&Propaganda Headquarters
of the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff was also established. At the operational
level, advance command posts were formed by the general corps district commands.
Units and materiel were deployed and echeloned in line with the plans, mobilization
started and units brought up to the planned complement, and the respective measures
were taken with regard to UNCRO members. 502
Th e General Staff also provided assistance by sending offi cers to corps districts and
some lower echelon units. Th eir stationing was mainly received without special comments
and their engagement posed no particular problems, although in one case troops
disobeyed these offi cers. 503 General Stipetić rightfully questioned the purpose of their
engagement considering the existing commands of the corps districts and brigades. 504
Aft er the start of the operation, the General Staff issued new orders on a daily basis in line
with developments on the battleground. 505 Th e Chief of the HV General Staff regularly
informed the President of the Republic about the course of the operation. 506 When the
hitch along the line of attack of the 2 nd Guards Brigade began to aff ect the overall situation
in the Banovina region, the President of the Republic responded. General Petar Stipetić,
Assistant Chief of the HV General Staff for the Combat Sector was pulled back from the
HV General Staff IZM at Đakovo and appointed commander of the sector covered by
the Zagreb and Bjelovar Corps Districts. Th e previous commanding offi cers remained
on their duties and “were subordinated in every respect, together with the units of the
corps districts, to the sector commander”. 507
502 MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01502-08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-505 of 21 August 1995; Report.
503 MORH, GSHV: IZM GSHV Ogulin, cl. 813-01/95-02/14, reg. no. 512-06-10-95-06 of 5 August 1995;
Extraordinary report.
504 HMDCDR: Comments of General Petar Stipetić on the Zagreb Corps District in the military-police
operations Storm.
505 MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-384 of 5 August 1995; Order.
MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-404 of 6 August 1995; Order. MORH,
GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-409 of 6 August 1995; Order. MORH, GSHV:
GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-411 of 6 August 1995; Order. MORH, GSHV: GS HV,
cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-420 of 7 August 1995; Order. MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-
01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-421 of 7 August 1995; Order.
506 MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-373 of 4 August 1995; Report.
MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-400 of 5 August 1995; Report. MORH,
GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-413 of 6 August 1995; Report. MORH, GSHV:
GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-427 of 7 August 1995; Report. MORH, GSHV: GS HV,
cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-438 of 8 August 1995; Report. MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-
01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-438 of 8 August 1995; Additional report at 19.45 hours.
507 MORH, GSHV: President of the RC, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-388 of 5 August 1995;
Order. MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-388 of 4 August 1995; Order.
MORH, GSHV: GS HV, cl. 80-01/95-02/08, reg. no. 512-06-05/01-95-389 of 5 August 1995; Order. General
Stipetić noted that this did not refer to the previous commander of the Zagreb Corps District. HMDCDR:
Comments of General Petar Stipetić on the text about the Zagreb Corps District in the military-police operation
Storm.
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