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38712disabling Martić by artillery attack was limited, if Gotovina believed Martić to be animportant component in SVK decision-making, the potential operational advantage indisrupting the SVK command and control structure would be substantial. 4261 Further,indirect, harassing fire at the TVIK factory, an apparent logistics supply facility andammunition components production facility, would degrade the enemy’s ability to usethe resources stored there to re-supply forces engaged in combat. 4262 The Knin policestation was also a valuable military objective, because police forces had been mobilizedto participate in hostilities and harassing fire could demoralize police forcesunaccustomed to combat operations, as well as disrupt the communication capability inthe station, which could have been used to augment military communications disruptedby other attacks. 4263 The open field outside of the Northern barracks, where there wereelements of a brigade that could function as reserve forces, was a place the enemy coulduse to muster prior to movement; sporadically targeting the field would inhibit theenemy’s ability to do so. 42644.4.3 Knin town1176. The Trial Chamber has received evidence with regard to the alleged unlawfulattack against civilians and civilian objects in Knin on 4 and 5 August 1995 from a largenumber of witnesses, including members of the HV and the SVK, civilians residing inKnin, international observers stationed in the town, and from a vast amount ofdocumentary material. The documentary material included, inter alia, governmentcables and UN reports as well as excerpts from books authored by persons not called aswitnesses. On several occasions, the Gotovina Defence and the Prosecution cited suchmaterials in support of assertions in their final trial briefs. 4265 The Trial Chamber hasconsidered all this evidence but only reviews and discusses parts of it below, focusingon the best available evidence. In this respect, for matters on which it had received eyewitness testimonies from persons who provided specific observations, the TrialChamber preferred to focus on such evidence, rather than on documentary evidencewhich did not explicitly provide sources and contained more general information.4261 D1642 (Expert Report of Geoffrey Corn, 28 June 2009), p. 32; Geoffrey Corn, T. 21547-21549.4262 D1642 (Expert Report of Geoffrey Corn, 28 June 2009), p. 32.4263 D1642 (Expert Report of Geoffrey Corn, 28 June 2009), p. 33.4264 D1642 (Expert Report of Geoffrey Corn, 28 June 2009), p. 33; Geoffrey Corn, T. 21581-21583.4265 See for instance, Gotovina Defence Final Trial Brief, paras 258, 279, 307, 313.603Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `