ABSTRACT
The relationship of the civilian and military authorities in the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina went through a marked transformation in the period 1992-95. At the start of the Bosnian war, in the spring of 1992, the B-H presidency and government on the one hand, and the Republic's armed forces on the other, were the heterogeneous, disunited representatives of a multiplicity of political interests and national loyalties. By the war's end, in the autumn of 1995, the remnants of the Republic and the newly born Bosnian Army - in possession of the approximately 30 per cent of Bosnian territory not occupied by Serb or Croat separatist forces - had been effectively transformed into the private domain of President Alija Izetbegovi£ and the Bosniak-nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA). Our purpose here is to trace the subordination of the Bosnian military to the political goals of the SDA, and its evolution from a multinational state army to a purely Bosniak party army.
