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"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
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A Yugoslav civilian, perhaps under duress, points out Yugoslav Army positions—according to the source.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
Wading across a small stream and prominently waving white flags, Yugoslav soldiers approach German troops and surrender.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
Ruth Mitchell was an American journalist who became caught up in the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. Sent to the Balkans to cover the marriage of King Zog, she stayed on in Belgrade and witnessed the German bombing firsthand. She went from reporting on the Chetniks to joining them, serving as a courier and spy under leaders including Draža Mihailović. Arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, she was imprisoned before ultimately being released in a prisoner exchange, later writing one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of the Yugoslav resistance.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum." — Vegetius
"Do not hurry to the sound of the guns without knowing why they are firing." — British maxim
"In war, the simplest things are difficult." — Clausewitz
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." — Moltke
"The side that can most quickly exploit success is the side that will win." — Guderian
Some days you’re the hammer, some days you’re the nail. 🪖🎲
Looking for a game? Challenge me here:
Marshal Josip Broz Tito (1892/1980), as head of the military committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, Tito led the Yugoslav communists in their resistance against the Axis occupation forces. 1944
Yugoslav soldiers march into captivity 1941.
Yugoslavia collapsed in less than 10 days without much of a fighting.
Yugoslavian collapse had far greater implications in the Balkan theater of operations as it uncovered Hellenic's army flank in Western Macedonia. That was an
opportunity that German forces seized and exploit outflanking Greek and Anzac forces defending Western Macedonia and eventually leading to a Greek
capitulation and evacuation of British/Anzac forces from the mainland.