Slovenia in the Defense Plans of the West, of Yugoslavia and the Balkan Pact
Keywords:
Yugoslavia, USA, the Balkan Pact, NATO, military assistance, Slovenia, the Ljubljana GatewayAbstract
In the following article the author focuses on the strategic and military importance of Slovenia in the time of the Yugoslav orientation towards the West in the beginning of 1950s. This was reflected in the involvement of Yugoslavia in the program of military assistance from the West and the conclusion of the Balkan Pact with Greece and Turkey. The strengthening of military forces in the satellite states of the Soviet Union and very prominent Soviet military contingents in Austria and Hungary called for coherent plans of the Yugoslav Peoples' Army and its western and southern allies for the defense of the sensitive Ljubljana Gateway in order to prevent the breakthrough of Soviet and their satellite states' forces into Northern Italy and the endangerment of the Western posts in this part of the Mediterranean.
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