Vežba Avala - Jugoslovenska odbrana od Varšavskog pakta 1968. godine
The Avala Exercise - Yugoslav Defense from the Warsaw Pact in 1968

Summary/Abstract: The author provides the overview of the activity of the Yugoslav Air Force and the Antiaircraft Defence during the crisis escalated by the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. This event was labeled in the contemporary Yugoslav military practice as the Avala exercise. The author outlines the resources which the Yugoslav army allocated in this event, as well as the activities undertaken to prevent a possible attack by the countries of the Warsaw pact. The text is analyzing these experiences as the basis for further rethinking of Yugoslav military doctrine and organization, as well as the training and upgrading of the infrastructure. The author concludes that this experience contributed greatly to the rethinking among the Yugoslav military leadership, which has henceforth conceived the threat from aggression towards Yugoslavia equally from the East and the West.

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