Taken from GDW Soviet Combat Vehicle Handbook and Eastern European Sourcebook.

 

 

Yugoslavia

 

 

Recent History: With the death of General Tito in 1987, separatist movements started to develop with the various Yugoslavia states, and by 1991 Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia had officially seceded from the country. The Serb dominated national government sent troops to stop this with the breakaway state militias fighting back.  The Serbs managed to control Bosnia, but after the new Bosnian governments request for Yugoslav national troops to withdraw was ignored, the Bosnians and other states rose up in outright rebellion against the Serbs. The escalation of violence led to Italian and Hungarian troops crossing into Slovenia and Croatia, mainly to stop the war from spilling over the borders into their territory.  In 1996 a Serb forces was dispatched to Romania to assist the Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasion, which weakened the Serb position in Yugoslavia and encouraged anti-Serb guerillas. With the situation worsening Italian troops fully entered Slovenia and Croatia, which effectively delineated the borders, and in the south the Greeks annexed Macedonia supported by the Albanians who wanted Kosovo.  However the Albanian claim was not supported by Italy or Greece, leading Albania to break from the alliance with Greece and Italy and encourage Albanian guerillas to attack Greek forces.  The departure of Italian and Hungarian forces due to the war in the rest of Europe encouraged the Serbs to try and link up with NATO forces. This ultimately failed but the prospect of NATO forces in the Balkans led to a Soviet invasion in 1997 which gained control of much of Bosnia, but also to the US sending troops to help the Serbs and anti-Soviet partisans. In 2000 Yugoslavia is a war thorn and divided country with numerous factions, both native and foreign vying for control and fighting among themselves.

 

 

Government: Each of the Yugoslavian states has its own governments, which are basically war councils as they do little else but fight each other. Both the US (CivGov) and the Soviets have troops in the country, with the US backing the Serbs and the Soviets backing the Croatians. 

 

Population: About 10 million Yugoslavs survived the war. Yugoslavia was not targeted by nuclear weapons, and most died from famine, disease, harsh winters and above all warfare. Most of the population lives in rural villages, but many cities survived.  In Serbia the largest cities are Belgrade (703,000), Novo Sad (95,000), Nis (85,000), Kragojavak (84,000), Subotica (62,000), and Podgorica/Titograd (36,000).  Other large cities in the other states are Pristina (79,000) and Skopje (56,000) in Macedonia, Zagreb (58,000) in Croatia, Sarejevo (75,000) in Bosnia, and Ljubljana (43,000) in Slovenia.

 

Industry & Economy: The Yugoslav economy has been totally destroyed by the war, and few if any industries survive. No power stations survived the war and what electricity there is comes from generators. Farming is the main occupation of those who are not fighting. The Yugoslav transport system was utterly destroyed in the fighting or has been vandalized since. There are no functional trains or even tracks left, and although the road system has survived in reasonable good shape, nearly all bridges have been destroyed. Outside of the military, motor vehicles are very rare.

 

 

Armed Forces:

 

The various Yugoslav armies are in poor shape in 2000. The military situation in Yugoslavia has also been described as a snake pit, due to fluid and interchangeable borders and alliances, and almost no pre-war Yugoslav national army units have survived the war. Small arms come from many sources, both native Yugoslavian, and NATO, Soviet or others. Heavy weapons, automatic weapons and ammunition are in short supply and have been supplemented by civilian semi-automatics, bolt action rifles and shotguns. 

 

The Yugoslav army and the successor states used Yugoslav T-84’s, and T-72/74’s, T-54/55’s, M-47 and M4 Sherman tanks. Other vehicles include PT-76, BRDM-2, M-8, and M3A1 scout vehicles, and M-80, M-60P and BTR-50/40 APC’s. Artillery includes 122mm and 105mm howitzers, 100mm, 90mm and 76.2 mm anti-tank guns, 120mm and 82mm mortars, 105mm and 57mm recoilless rifles, AT-3 and BOV-AT missiles, 37mm and 20mm AAG and SA-7 SAM.  Helicopters are unlikely to have survived, at least in Yugoslav service. 

 

 

Serbia

 

The Serbian Republic has organised two brigades which are under the control of the Serbian High Command. There are also six locally raised Serb militia brigades and numerous small bands of anti-Soviet partisans. The Serbian Republic forces are better armed than the militias and probably have sizeable stocks of vehicles and weaponry that they inherited from the Yugoslav national army.  The Serbs are pro-NATO and are actively fighting the Soviets, who have occupied the Serb capital Belgrade, and other former Yugoslav nations and partisans.

 

1st Provisional Infantry Divisions

This is a Serb Republic unit is currently located south and east of Belgrade fighting the Soviets.

Location: South and East of Belgrade, Serbia.

Manpower: 2,000

Tanks: 4 (3x M-84, 1x M-47)

 

1st Provisional Mountain Brigade

This is a Serb Republic unit is currently fighting the Albanian army and ethnic Albanian partisans in Kosovo, north and north east of Pec.

Location: Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo

Manpower: 700

 

Novi Sad Infantry Brigade

This unit is a Serb militia force fighting the Soviets to the north of Belgrade.

Location: North of Belgrade, Serbia

Manpower: 300

 

Sabac Infantry Brigade

This unit is a Serb militia force fighting the Soviets and marauders. It has recently recaptured the city of Vrsac near the Serbian border with Romania from a large band of marauders and is consolidating its hold on the area.

Location: Vrsac, Serbia

Manpower: 500

 

Valjevo Infantry Brigade

This Serb militia unit is currently fighting the Soviets south west of Belgrade.

Location: South west of Belgrade, Serbia

Manpower: 500

 

Pancevo Infantry Brigade

This Serb militia unit is currently located in Bosnia at the city of Tuzla, attempting to regain control of the area from bandits and marauders.

Location: Tuzla, Bosnia

Manpower: 600

 

Nis Infantry Brigade

This Serb militia unit is fighting Bulgarian backed marauders in and around the city of Lescovak near the Serbian border with Bulgaria.

Location: Lescovak, Serbia 

Manpower: 400

 

Kragujevac Infantry Brigade

This is a Serb militia unit fighting the Soviets in Belgrade.

Location: Belgrade area, Serbia

Manpower: 400

 

 

Croatia

 

The Croatian Republic is the second strongest native force in Yugoslavia, and it has organised eight militia infantry brigades to defend its territory. The Croatians are fighting the Serbs and US forces and have aligned themselves with the Soviets and other Warsaw Pact nations, which has kept them well supplied, but they have no tanks.

 

Prvi Brigade

This unit is based in coastal city of Split and serves as the Croatian garrison for the town.

Location: Split, Croatia

Manpower: 400

 

Drugi Brigade

This unit is based in the coastal town of Dubrovnik.

Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Manpower: 800

 

Treci Brigade

This unit is based in Sisak, south east of Zagreb and watches the south east border with Bosnia and is a second line of defence in case of a direct attack  from Serbian territory.

Location: Sisak, Croatia

Manpower: 450

 

Cetvrti Brigade

This unit is based in Lovrec, north of Split. It was recently defeated by the US 42nd Infantry Division and has withdrawn to Lovrec to refit and recruit.

Location: Lovrec, Croatia

Manpower: 200

 

Peti Brigade

This unit is based in the coastal town of Sibenik.

Location: Sibenik, Croatia

Manpower: 500

 

Sesti Brigade

This unit is based in Osijek and would be the first line of Croatian defence from a Serbian attack across the Serbia border.

Location: Osijek, Croatia

Manpower: 700

 

Sedmi Brigade

This unit is the garrison for the Croatian capital Zagreb.

Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Manpower: 600

 

Osmi Brigade

This unit is based in the Split area, patrolling the Croatian south western borders with Bosnia.

Location: Split, Croatia

Manpower: 200

 

 

Slovenia

 

Slovenian is the only other former Yugoslav state that has an organised army in T2K.  Slovenia is probably the most stable part of the former Yugoslavia and has good relations with neighboring Italy. The Slovenians have an effective and well equipped militia force.

 

1st Provisional Brigade Group

Currently based in the Slovene capital Ljubljana, serving as the garrison for the city,

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Manpower: 600

Tanks: 3 (2x M84’s, 1x M4A3E8)

 

2nd Provisional Brigade Group

Currently based in the Slovenian city of Celje.

Location: Celje

Manpower: 400

Tanks: 2 (2x T-55)

 

 

Others

 

Both the US (CivGov) and Soviet’s have considerable forces in Yugoslavia, as do the Greeks and Albanians for that matter. However I will only give a basic listing of US and Soviet forces at present and will cover them later in more detail under my US and Soviet ORBATs.    

 

 

US Army

 

All US forces in Yugoslavia are loyal to the US Civilian Government, but are not hostile to other US and NATO forces.

 

DEFCOM SOUTH

 

IV US Corps

42nd Infantry Division

76th Infantry Division (Light)

80th Infantry Division (Light)

 

 

Soviet Army

 

SOVIET SOUTHERN FRONT

 

20th Army

9th Internal Defence Rifle Division

73rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division

266th Motorized Rifle Division

112th Air Assault Brigade