JNA Offensive Up To October
After the attacking forces of the 5th JNA corps (Banja Luka corps) had successfully crossed Sava river into Croatia and captured Okučani in western Slavonia, it was their primary objective to advance along the Pakrac - Grubišno Polje route and link up with the 28th Partisan Division near Bilogora, sever the Podravska magistrala trunk road and reach the Hungarian border, thus completely severing Slavonia from the remainder of Croatia, including the capital - Zagreb.
Aiding the JNA offensive was the local Serb population in SAO Western Slavonia which had taken up arms in early 1991.
The mountainous regions provided a base for the Serb forces, which thence proceeded to fire grenades at nearby cities and villages in the lowlands.
Read more about this topic: Operation Otkos 10
Famous quotes containing the word offensive:
“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)