ABSTRACT
On 28 September 1990, Serbia’s new constitution was promulgated. Highly unitary and giving immense powers to the republic’s President, the constitution is a good guide to Slobodan Milosevic’s thinking on the possible future development of a whole variety of issues, including his relations with the country’s federal armed forces. At the governmental level, the Democratic Opposition of Slovenia and Croatian Democratic Union governments both established coordinating organs to better control and expand their respective armed forces, and to make the best use of all the relevant local resources available for the defense of their respective republics. Politically, a war of one sort or another had become essentially inevitable in Yugoslavia by the end of 1990 and was certain to break out in 1991 or 1992 at the latest. As the war has expanded and as Serbia and Croatia have tenaciously contested areas of dispute, casualties and property damage have mounted rapidly.
