PROBLEM LEFTOVER MINES IN SERBIA Cover Image

ПРОБЛЕМ ЗАОСТАЛИХ МИНА У СРБИЈИ
PROBLEM LEFTOVER MINES IN SERBIA

Author(s): Miodrag Komarčević, Momir Ostojić
Subject(s): Military history, Environmental and Energy policy, Security and defense, Environmental interactions
Published by: Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Latar Vrkatić
Keywords: Mines; aerial bombs; cluster bombs; missiles; cruise missiles;

Summary/Abstract: Unlike neighboring countries (Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia), which are also passed through the armed conflict, the mine problem in Serbia, at least as far as risk is somewhat differ manifested, structured and manifestly expressed. While the first group of countries, mainly facing minefields remnants of the Civil War, Serbia, on the contrary, in addition to this problem, faces a threatening phenomenon related to sophisticated unexploded ordnance left behind after the NATO aggression. It is these mines, bombs and missiles, and after 20/10 years are not only risk, but also a great security, social, economic and environmental problem that cannot be delayed. This specific position of Serbia in relation to the mine threat in neighboring countries, the result is a contemporary strategic view which is applied through the concept and model ‘Joint Vision 2010’ the plan of military operations demonstrated during the NATO aggression. Application of the above strategic model, aimed at ensuring dominance in a wide range of effects, included the use not only of dominant maneuver, but also sophisticated modern ordnance many of which are first applied in wartime. During the aggression, NATO forces are using the latest generation of ordnance, which is the territory of Serbia, and especially its southern part, turned into a one-off experimental ground to test the accuracy and the effects on the pre-selected moving and stationary targets. Therefore, the problems in detecting, locating and mine clearance above ordnance far more complex and risky because they require a high level of expertise with a big financial commitment, but that’s just a classic minefields.

  • Issue Year: 4/2014
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 210-227
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian