Original scientific paper
CLAUSEWITZ’S CONCEPT OF THE CENTRE OF GRAVITY AND THE ROLE OF KNIN IN MILITARY AND POLICE OPERATION STORM
Darijo Klarić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4887-4810
; Ministarstvo obrane Republike Hrvatske
Abstract
This work deals with the operational art of military and police operation Storm conducted by the Croatian armed and police forces of the Republic of Croatia in 1995. Thereby, operational art is efficiently positioned as an intermediary area in which standard gaps between strategy, tactics and politics should be overcome, that is, all available sources of military and non-military power were efficiently orchestrated in the Storm operation with the intention to achieve final strategic objectives. As the national level, the Strom was the key operation in liberating the occupied areas, whereas at the regional level, it created strategic conditions for establishing the enduring peace, security and stability in South East Europe. The main objective of this paper is to explain causal connection between a rapid collapse of so-called “Serbian Krajina Army” (SVK) or “evaporating” SVK, military-strategic role of the town of Knin and the applied operational art of the Croatian armed and police forces and, within that framework, explore the validity of the concept of the centre of gravity of Carl von Clausewitz in Storm operation.
Keywords
military and police operation Storm; Clausewitz’s concept of the centre of gravity (COG); operational art; societary dimension; the “real threat strategy”; disintegration of “SVK” defence system
Hrčak ID:
276218
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2021.
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