ABSTRACT
In looking back at the recent conflicts that have engulfed former Yugoslavia, a key area of study has to be the Serb war effort, which was a central factor in the military and political situation of the region. This study will focus on the 1991 war in Croatia and the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, although the other phases of the Serbian-Croatian conflict and especially the merging of the two wars in 1995 are also germane. As part of that process, the Serbian strategy for war termination, by which is meant why and how a belligerent decides to end a war at a specific time, merits particular attention, as this phase can determine the shape of the political end-state resulting from a conflict.1
