L-I: ARMY BOOK ANALYZING FRACTURE POINT IN YUGOSLAV SOCIETY, 1982

[Borba100@aol.com]

Dear MacDonald,

Concerning the US army book that talks about potentials for "cleavage" in 
Yugoslavia, I had in fact posted something on Marxism list a few months ago.  
Apparently Petar Makara typed the text onto computer and I posted that.  I 
have reposted my notes to the list members, taken from my post of last 
November or thereabouts.  Here's what I wrote: 

<<Anyway, here are some excerpts from the Army book, with Petar's rather 
angry 
notes.
Readers will note his mis-uses of the definite and indefinite article, the 
sure giveaway that a Serb is writing:

"Area handbook series.  
YUGOSLAVIA, a country of study"

[Petar writes:]

Book is published by Headquarters, Department of the Army (DA Pam 550-99), 
Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. It is well done. 
Each study in series (as said in Foreword) is done by a multidisciplinary 
TEAM of social scientists. The bibliography list is 31 (thirty-one) pages 
long! As said in the Foreword (written by Dr. William Evans-Smith, Director, 
Foreign Area Studies, The American University, Washington, DC): 

"The study focuses on historical antecedents and on the cultural, political 
and socioeconomic characteristics that contribute to cohesion and cleavage 
within the society." 

{Petar's comment: One would expect that from a study that is to serve 
Department of the Army. Cleavage - in particular - is of immense importance. 
The Army has to study it thoroughly in order to have a bit easier task when 
the time is ripe to dismantle a country. We will see here what they found. 

But, back to the subject: The best thing about book is the fact that the 
edition that we are presenting here was published in the 1982 (i.e. nine 
years before American officials, with help of Spin Doctors, started working 
on expending the cleavage). 
Here is one quote about Kosovo Albanians: }

Albanians (pages 75-76) Quote: 

"Yugoslavia's largest national minority was its Albanian community, in 1981 
numbering some 1.6 million, nearly 7 percent of the population. Most 
Albanians were concentrated in Kosovo where they constituted roughly 80 
(eighty) percent of the population; another quarter million resided in 
neighboring Macedonia and Montenegro. All told, an estimated one-third to 
one-half of all Albanians lived in Yugoslavia - MAKING THEM ONE OF THE 
LARGEST POTENTIALLY IRREDENTIST COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD... "

More quotes from book:
" Some demonstrators {in the 1981 Albanian riots} suggested that the proposed 
Kosovo republic ought to include Albanians in Macedonia and Montenegro too. 
SOME EXTREMISTS EVEN VOICED SECESSIONIST SENTIMENT CALLING FOR A "GREATER 
ALBANIA." 
End Petar's notes and quote from army book.

Note that in '82 the Army recognized, for its own readers - not the general 
public - that the demand for greater albania is extreme.  This is precisely 
what the US has backed today, and it is what Rugova (the peaceful nobel prize 
winning ghandieseque etc.etc.) advocated ten years ago.

Anyway, for those who don't believe that the bad guys make plans: the army 
had it scoped out 15 years ago.  

Jared>>



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