The author builds on the thesis that in 1990 the National Defence, operating and established at the level of the republic, was covered in the legal and organisational sense in what was then the Total National Defence and Social Self Protection Act. However, in the functional sense the National Defence was the result of the formation of the military part of the defence system under the control of the new Slovenian authorities and an implementation of the concept of defence or armed forces. The main goal of this concept was to organise units and structures which would provide the nascent Slovenian state with military defence functions. To this end the organisers relied on the capabilities of the Territorial defence, answering to the republican leadership, as well as on those militia units which had been equipped and trained in a semi military manner. In this regard the Home Guard Manoeuvring Structure is certainly a paradoxical term, as in principle the Home Guard was a local or stationary rather than manoeuvre force.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 3087988The author presented the formation of the clandestine organisational network of the Home Guard Manoeuvring Structure - a temporary defence force of the Republic of Slovenia - in the Slovenian territory. The existing organisational forms of the internal affairs bodies administrations and Militia stations were used for this purpose. Until the end of September 1990 a secret network was established, which included a considerable percentage of the militia members, who set up hidden weapon repositories, took part in the secret distribution of weapons, and kept the registers of the recruits.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 2809460In the special circumstances involved in the Republic of Slovenia attaining the status of an independent state in 1990 and 1991, the armed forces did not only function as one of the important factors representing and strengthening the statehood of the new state, but also deterred dangers and secured the path towards independence in light of the high probability that the federal authorities and the Yugoslav People's Army, which pronounced the impending declaration of independence as secession, would intervene. Due to these circumstances the Republic of Slovenia had, before the declaration of independence on 25 June 1991, established its own defence system and armed forces, capable of defence operations as soon as the Yugoslav People's Army in fact intervened a day after the declaration of independence. The establishment of the Home Guard Manoeuvring Structure in the summer and autumn of 1990 was an important stage of this process, dictating the further course of the formation of the armed forces due to the solutions adopted at that time.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 2928500The author describes the development of the attitude and awareness of the population in regard to the defence of Slovenia at the critical stage of the Yugoslav crisis. An increasing percentage of the Slovenian population supported the defence from the former fellow citizens of Yugoslavia more and more resolutely, and the partial confiscation of weapons from the Territorial Defence in May 1990 represented a turning point. The clandestine defence organisation, established by the competent bodies of the Slovenian state, included considerable initiative, not only on the part of the Home Guard Manoeuvring Structure, but also on the part of the civilian population activating itself in order to assist the organisation in the storage of weapons and equipment, transport, and intelligence work. This also holds true for the period before the declaration of independence and the Independence War in June and July of 1991. However, a considerable part of the population simultaneously supported the idea that in the future the defence system of the Republic of Slovenia should be based on unarmed defence.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 2876276The course Military History of Slovenia and Slovenians deals with the most important developmental stages of military organisation and military events from the Roman age to modern times, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th century. In this period, the Slovenian military history was a part of Habsburg and Yugoslav state. It only started developing separately in critical periods, evolving into the history of Slovenian national army after 1991. In the context of this subject both lecturers also lectures on Slovenian Independence Period – Security Threats in 1990 and Independence War of 1991.
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