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- proper noun the
military of theSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1945 - 1992)
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Examples
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He was brought up in Tito's Yugoslavia and trained at the military academy of the Yugoslav People's Army in Belgrade.
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He was brought up in Tito's Yugoslavia and trained at the military academy of the Yugoslav People's Army in Belgrade.
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Never mind that they dominated the ranks of both the Yugoslav People's Army and the Communist party.
The Ghosts Of Serbia 2008
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One Serb, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Yugoslav People's Army, proudly displayed the framed photograph of Tito on his apartment wall as we sipped whisky with his Croat wife.
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Either way, Mladic's hostility to Croats, Muslims and Germans seems to have been instilled early on, Nationalism was taboo in Tito's Yugoslavia, so Mladic kept those feelings to himself as he assembled an impressive officer's resume in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).
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Serb forces in Bosnia are a miscellaneous lot, cobbled up from a 40,000-troop Bosnian Serb army under the command of a renegade general, borrowed Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) conscripts and a cast of irregulars.
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That left every republic except Serbia -- which inherited the military assets of the Yugoslav People's Army -- at a severe disadvantage.
For Shame 2008
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In a race against the Yugoslav People's Army, U.S. forces could do little to prevent the slaughter.
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But Serbia wants the city for its own and has ordered the Yugoslav People's Army to seize it, apparently at any price.
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If cohesion at the top is an asset for an army, the Yugoslav People's Army (YPA) should be in prime fighting trim.
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