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41 Army Hist. 1 (1997)

handle is hein.milandgov/aryhsy0041 and id is 1 raw text is: ARMY HISTORY THE PROFESSIONAL BUIIETIN OF ARMY HISTORY PB-2O-97-2 (No. 41) Washington, D.C. Spring 1997 The Army's Historical Coverage of Operation JOmNT ENDEAVOR B~riwe 11. Siemon No dou m y r rs have already seen the Center ofMiiir Hiton (CMH)p5 Hormepage on the nernI hi, eldng h Ysped to n caled ltistor atns in JOINT ENDAvol That story. the accown of the A myn hisorical activQies in suppo it pe1rtton of INEND AVO ac, iny bg'n in F ushary x99 al od a year r fitherst d plom ent That was the monrh the U.S. A, y Europe and Seventh Anny (USAREUR) hiOf rian m10 wit the tSARFUR Chi fof Staff, tihn Mj Gen. Robert E Gray (now lieutenant general and the USAREUR Deputy Commander in Chief) Among other subcts, General Gray asked about plans for historical coverge of operatons in which USAREUR forces might be deployed outside the North Atlantic Treaty Orgni~a lion N ATO) Cetr Region He believed the Army history community mn the past had always been forced to cret as - arrangements for historical coverae afwa noperation had begun. Since the prohathilty wa high that USARLIJR would be aled up n inhe future to participate in contingency operations of one k ind or another. General Gray did not wan similar last- minute improvisations in our the ter. Rather, he ex- pe ted to haye In place a generic p1annlng documrn i governing military history operations; that is, some- thing ihat could be pulled off the shelf, modifmed to fi the situation, and plugged into operations and conuin gency plans whenever the need should arise Based on that guidance, the USAR EUR Miitay Iinuory Office e lablihe centac it h P1 n Opme riosDivisions of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staffh Operations ( ODCSOPS) in arch 199 and, at the ation officer level worked out a concep fr a model historical annesxthar coultib used in U SA R EUR contingency and operations plans and orders. It was virtualy certain that any future contingency operation would be joint, so the annex explained the principles that would govern the designation of joint heater or task force historians. as w,1 l as uniservice Army com,- ponnt-omand hi. na stastes that would be handle aechelon conie P~hi h r hn ours- and then estabished a concept of operations and tasks that would need to be performed by commanders within USAREUR to insur: the preservation of a complete and accur te record of rn1hmand's par- ticipation in such operations. One area of potential concernmwasthe formerRepublicof Yugoslavia,which had begun to break up in June 1991, when Croatia and Slovenia declared their independen c. Highting be- tween Cr ats and ethnic Serbs brte Out and soon spread to Bosnia-HerzegovIna. leading the United Nations to impose economic sanc ion in hepring of 992 m an effort to stop the bloodshed. mu the fightng on rnued, and in Nom p rl' )2 nid NSH ns (UN) imposed a naI Nckad on Yug slvia Dc spite repeated nts to n'otiae peace. and the presence of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR ), the fighting bet ween Bosnian govern- ment forces and Serbia-supported Bosnian Serbs con- tinued to escalate during 1993 and 1991 to include the use of heavy weapons. In May 1995 che Bosnian Serbs renewed attacks on eeged Sarajevo, NATO resumed air strikes against Bosnin Serb em-, an t r ke Uni d Niionssafe are4i i i RF OR l'rn nIho- rage and chaining many of them to suh potential are a rdes~ or holdng themm miiir f ihie (eg. ammunition dumps) The potential for U.S. inivolvemient wa 'rowiuig d y, I /AREUR be- g an a series of vhat ir' actions-developing plans for different options and conducting training excreises to evaluate those scenarios. T he drafl historical ;nnex

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