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Unef: the Yugoslav Contingent - The Yugoslav Army Contingent in the Sinai Peninsula 1956-1967 (Paperback)
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Unef: the Yugoslav Contingent - The Yugoslav Army Contingent in the Sinai Peninsula 1956-1967 (Paperback)
Series: Middle East@War
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Pursuing a policy of social revolution, national liberation, and
non-alignment, Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito became involved in
the Middle East in the mid-1950s. Combined with some initial
interest in economic and military assistance, this involvement
found a positive reception among several Arab states, foremost
Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser. Close personal ties between Tito
and Nasser significantly contributed to the deployment of a
contingent from the Yugoslav Popular Army (JNA) within the United
Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) in Egypt, following the Suez War of
1956. Established in a hurry and deployed to Egypt in late November
1956, the JNA's part of the UNEF consisted of a reinforced
reconnaissance battalion. The unit was manned by conscript soldiers
and equipped with vehicles provided by the USA within the frame of
the Mutual Defence Assistance Program (MDAP). The story of the
unit's difficult task of entering the Sinai Peninsula right on the
heels of withdrawing Israeli forces is the centrepiece of this
book. While warmly welcomed by the local inhabitants, through late
1956 and all of 1957, the JNA contingent had the difficult task of
reaching the demarcation lines, establishing observation posts, and
making sure the cease-fire would be respected by all of the
belligerents. For a force that understood itself to have a
national-liberation and revolutionary role, rather than being an
expeditionary military, the Yugoslav Popular Army thus went through
a particularly unusual experience. The mission of the JNA's
contingent with the UNEF on the Sinai came to a sudden end during
the crisis leading to the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War: squeezed
between the advancing Israeli forces, it had to be quickly
evacuated, leaving all its heavy equipment and vehicles behind.
Prepared with help of the original documentation from a host of
archival sources of the former JNA, the book Yugoslav UNEF
Contingent focuses foremost on the deployment immediately after the
Suez Crisis of 1956. Providing detailed coverage of the much
underreported closing chapter of that conflict, it is illustrated
by more than 150 original photographs, most of which have never
been published before.
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