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Operational implementation of the mission:
a) in case of limited aggression:
Decisive defence of all points and installations by SVK forces along the lines of enemy
assault; attack along selected lines with main forces and seize areas and installations of
particular importance for the enemy in order to capture as much space as possible and
recover territories seized earlier.
CP in the Knin area
ACP in the Petrova Gora area
b) in case of radical aggression:
Th e Serbian Army of Krajina, with the maximum involvement of all the resources of the
state and by persistent defence along with active operations, in cooperation with VRS
and VJ elements, must prevent the occupation of territory and defend the integrity of
the RSK.
Prepare and execute active operations in central Dalmatia, in the area between the
rivers Kupa and Mrežnica, and eastern Slavonia. Focus on severing communications in
Gorski Kotar and Dalmatia.
CP in the area of Petrova Gora
ACP in the Knin area
3. In case of a general attack of the Croatian army on the RSK, the VJ will discharge
its obligations under the Vance Plan by engaging units and recruiting volunteers from
the SRY. Th e main reception centre (Bubanj Potok) in Belgrade (Serbia) will be the
responsibility of the First Army, and all liaison shall be eff ected through it.
Th e VRS will engage in defence and active action with respect to the Corridor, 26 the
Cazin Krajina and Livanjsko Polje, and thereby tie up elements of the HVO 27 and the
Muslim army and prevent their engagement against the RSK.
4. I HAVE DECIDED, in coordination with offi cial authorities and organizations, and
in cooperation with MUP RSK units and elements of the VRS and the VJ, to prevent by
decisive defence and resorting to various forms of armed combat the routing of the SVK,
the carving up or occupation of RSK territory, in order to preserve territorial integrity.
a) in case of limited aggression:
In case of HV aggression against the RSK, resort to determined defence along the lines
of enemy assault and, through active operations along other lines, with focus on Eastern
Slavonia, Kordun and Dalmatia, restore the territory lost earlier, prevent the cutoff
of smaller parts of the RSK, infl ict losses, spread hostile forces and, through artillery
and rocket strikes on selected targets in the territory of the Republic of Croatia, deter
26 A thin line of territory in Bosnian Posavina which connected the occupied parts of Bosnia&Herzegovina
(western area) and of Croatia (the so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina) with Serbia.
27 Hrvatsko vijeće obrane (Croatian Defence Council) - armed forces of the Croats in Bosnia&Herzegovina.
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