The Role of Outside Forces
Real or imagined, the presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina of armed forces from outside the country also posed significant problems for Operative Zone commanders. Allegations of Croatian Army (HV) intervention in central Bosnia and western Herzegovina posed a political and public relations problem, but the presence of fundamentalist Muslim mujahideen and of other foreign mercenaries and the presence of UNPROFOR troops and both United Nations and European Community monitoring teams constituted a substantial challenge to effective command and control by commanders.
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