ABSTRACT
After a short ten-day war between the Yugoslav People’s army and the Slovenian territorial defence1 and police forces in June and July 1991, Slovenia became an independent state. These events took place after the Declaration of the Independent Slovenia was issued (Bebler, 1992). The military conflict was followed by diplomatic negotiations under the auspices of the European Economic Community (EEC), today’s European Union (EU). The outcome was a three-month moratorium on Slovenia attaining independence. The full retreat of the Yugoslav People’s army out of Slovenian territory followed in October 1991. At the beginning of 1992 Slovenia was an internationally recognised sovereign state and it was thus possible to radically reform its legal, socio-economic, political and security systems (Maleši=, 2000). Those changes obviously exerted a profound influence on the nature and practice of civil-military relations.
