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Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Mission
The stated mission of SFOR was to "deter hostilities and stabilise the peace, contribute to a secure environment by providing a continued military presence in the Area Of Responsibility (AOR), target and co-ordinate SFOR support to key areas including primary civil implementation organisations, and progress towards a lasting consolidation of peace, without further need for NATO-led forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina".NEWS,weblink SFOR MISSION, NATO, SFOR HQ Sarajevo, 14 January 2003, November 27, 2012,Structure and history
SFOR was established in Security Council Resolution 1088 on 12 December 1996. It succeeded the much larger Implementation Force IFOR which was deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 20 December 1995 with a one-year mandate. The commanders of the SFOR, who each served one-year terms, were General William W. Crouch, General Eric Shinseki, General Montgomery Meigs, Lt. General Ronald Adams, Lt. General Michael Dodson, Lt. General John B. Sylvester, Lt. General William E. Ward, Major General Virgil Packett and Brigadier General Steven P. Schook.SFOR operated in support of NATO Operation Joint Guard and Operation Joint Forge.Troop levels were reduced to approximately 12,000 by the close of 2002, and to approximately 7,000 by the close of 2004. During NATO's 2004 Istanbul Summit the end of the SFOR mission was announced.It was replaced by the European Union's EUFOR Althea, on 2 December 2004 at NATO HQ, Camp Butmir, Sarajevo, B-H. Operation Joint Forge was succeeded by the EU's Operation Althea.SFOR was divided into three zones of operation:- Mostar MND(S) â Italian, French, German, Spanish
- Banja Luka MND(W) â American, British, Canadian, Czech, Dutch. The British code name for their activities in IFOR was Operation Resolute and SFOR was Operation Lodestar (to June 1998) and Operation Palatine (from June 1998). The Canadian mission was named Operation Palladium (1996 to 2004).
- Tuzla MND(N) â American, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish.
Air operations
Several sequential air operations supported the stabilization efforts.BOOK,weblink, No Fly Zones and International Security: Politics and Strategy, 14 March 2019, 9781317087182, 2020-04-22, Wrage, Stephen, Cooper, Scott, Routledge,
- Operation Deny Flight (April 1993 â December 1996)
- Operation Decisive Edge (December 1995 â December 1996)
- Operation Decisive Guard (December 1996 â June 1998)
- Operation Deliberate Forge (June 1998 â September 2004)
Member forces
SFOR participated in Operation Joint Guard (21 December 1996 â 19 June 1998) and Operation Joint Forge (20 June 1998 â 2 December 2004).(File:Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (SFOR) Map.png|thumb|Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina SFOR Map)NATO nations providing troops included:{hide}columns-list|colwidth=22em|- Albania
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Spain
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Egypt
- Malaysia
- Morocco
- New Zealand
- Republic of Ireland
- Russia
- Sweden
- Ukraine
See also
References
{{reflist}}Further reading
- BOOK,weblink Bosnia-Herzegovina: The U.S. Army's Role in Peace Enforcement Operations 1995â2004, United States Army Center of Military History, CMH Pub 70-97-1, R. Cody, Phillips, Washington, D.C., 2010-06-11, 2013-12-09,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131209001303weblink">weblink dead,
- JOURNAL, Measuring the success of the NATO operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995â2000, 140, 2, 459â481, European Journal of Operational Research, Nicholas, Lambert, 2002, 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00083-8,
External links
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- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080109135338weblink">US Air Force News article on Operation Joint Forge
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