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April 20, 1992
. Vreme News Digest Agency No 30

Before the wars in Yugoslavia

JNA

169,000 men (95,000 recruits)

(Source: International Institute for Strategic Studies in London)

 

The present JNA forces

70,000 men (according to Reuters)

220,000-280,000 (according to Anton Bebler, a Slovene political scientist)

 

The future armed forces of the Federal Republic of YU

100,000 men (0,5-1,5% of the population)

- 20,000 officers

- 50,000 recruits

- others, professional soldiers (according to YU military experts)

 

SLOVENIA

 

Planned forces

 

12,000 officers and army conscripts, together with Territorial Defense units - around 40,000 men (according to A. Babler), i.e. 56-60,000 (according to the Slovene press)

 

CROATIA

 

Present forces

 

200,000 men

350 tanks

4000 artillery weapons

30 farming planes

(Source: a JNA report)

140 fighter planes, mostly from the ex-GDR arsenals and a few MIGs piloted by JNA deserters

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