Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina – UPDATED
External Links:Bloomsbury AcademicAmazonGoogle Books On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered in Sarajevo to mark the official formation of a new, unified, and multiethnic military: The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Yet, just over a decade before, many of these soldiers had fought each other in a vicious conflict that […]
Fitzroy Maclean Fought the Nazis, Blew Up Forts and Met a King
War is Boring (2018) – Republished in Defense Maven (2018) I rarely get to choose the title of articles such as this, and this one in particular is not a favourite. The article, however, tells the unlikely (almost unbelievable) story of the wartime career of a soldier in the British Army, Fitzroy McClean. His exploits […]
Europe’s Last World War II Battle
War is Boring (2018) – Republished in The National Interest (2018) This article provides an account of the last battle of the Second World War to take place on European soil – finally ending 16 days after most of the continent’s population celebrated VE Day. The battle took place around the town of Odžak, in […]
Yugoslav Military Doctrine Hastened the Country’s Collapse
War is Boring (2018) This article provides a new perspective on the collapse of Yugoslavia, highlighting the extent to which the decisions and policies of Yugoslav leaders regarding defence contributed to the collapse of the country and the war that accompanied it. Factors such as the provision and storage of weapons, military organisation, and national […]
What Happens to Us When Robots Fight Our Wars?’
War is Boring (2018) This article concerns the rise of robot soldiers on the contemporary battlefield and explores the unforeseen social impacts that may result from replacing the human soldier with a machine. This is a fascinating subject and one I hope to research much more in future.
How the War in Iraq Unintentionally Helped Stabilise Bosnia
The Conversation (2018) Republished in The New European (2018) This article, written for The Conversation but republished in The New European along with numerous other media outlets around the world, presents some of my early findings from my PhD research regarding the military integration of the armed forces that remained in Bosnia and Herzegovina after […]
The BASEES Newsletter talks to Elliot Short, PhD Candidate at the University of East Anglia and Editor of the BASEES Bulletin
BASEES Newsletter, Vol. 25. (2019) This is an interview that I gave to the Newsletter of the British Association of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies a few months before I graduated with my PhD. I discuss my academic career, my research, the time I spent living in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and my work with BASEES.
The Regimental System and the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Centar za sigurnosne studije – BiH/Centre for Security Studies – Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018) In this paper, written during my time working with CSS – BiH, I explain the history of the regimental system and trace the developments that led to this method of organisation being employed by the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina […]
[Review] Colm Doyle, Witness to War Crimes: The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia. (Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley, 2018)
European History Quarterly (2018) Here I review Colm Doyle’s superb memoir of his time serving as a peacekeeper during the collapse of Yugoslavia.
The Orao Affair: The Key to Military Integration in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Journal of Slavic Military Studies (2018) Following Dayton, three ethnocentric armies remained in Bosnia and Herzegovina, presenting a significant obstacle to the consolidation of the multiethnic Bosnian state. This article examines the development of the separate armies and the reform process that ultimately unified them. It contends that such progress would not have been […]