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ypa is in effect already a Serb army. It ought to be transformed. I will
press for legal provisions to this effect within the framework of the
[fry] Constitution.” 285
The ypa was under the command of a general staff from Serbia
and Montenegro throughout the fighting in Slovenia and Croatia—and
later in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The fry was the ypa’s base and
source of “complete logistic support provided by the governments
and other agencies from these republics.” The ypa was financed and
supplied with fuel, food, and other necessities by the two republics
and equipped by military contractors based on their territory. The
ypa also depended on the medical service of these republics. 286
THE BOSNIAN WAR
The independence of Croatia and Slovenia confronted Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Macedonia with a choice that they had tried to
avoid by proposing the preservation of Yugoslavia as a loose asymmetrical
federation. Once it was clear that this option was no longer
possible, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia felt that they had no
alternative but to demand their own independence.
Dobrica Ćosić became the federal president. The new federal
state, the Republic of Yugoslavia, was proclaimed on March 27, 1992.
The war in Bosnia would be fought by ypa officers of intermediate
rank who would rise as the conflict progressed. The ypa was transformed
into a Serbian army with strong Chetnik elements and placed
in the hands of new leaders such as Momčilo Perišić and Ratko
Mladić.
After kos lost its battle for supremacy with the Serbian State
Security Service, the rs Army operated with the State Security Service
and Milošević began to rely increasingly on the Serbian Interior
Ministry and State Security Service, which he could control
285 Extracts from the book by Dobrila Gajić-Glišić, NIN, April 24, 1992 .
286 Ilija T . Radaković, Besmislena YU ratovanja, Belgrade, 1997 .