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Operation Flash its peacetime complement totalled 14,900 and the wartime complement
62,500 troops. Th e numbers can be assumed to have been the same on the eve of Operation
Storm, meaning that the SVK had about 43,000 men under arms in the western part of
Croatia. 27
Th e “real threat strategy”, as the RSK military strategy was called, was introduced in
the summer of 1993. It was based on the assumption that the Croatian off ensive “against
the Republic of Serbian Krajina would set off ... large scale fi re counteractions targeting
vital facilities and objectives in Croatia and resulting in demolition, destruction and
manpower losses, which the Croatian side would fi nd unacceptable”. Th at, it was believed,
was the only way which “could force Croatia to accept the Krajina and its armed forces as
a serious opponent and negotiating partner”. 28
27 VSA MORH: Overview of reinforcement of the SVK peacetime complement on 1 May 1995; VSA MORH:
Overview of reinforcement of the SVK wartime complement on 1 May 1995.
28 R. Radinović, «Realna pretnja na delu» (Real Th reat at Work), 7.
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