Currently in the post-1900 board, but demographical issues may necessitate a pre-1900 PoD. If this becomes the case, I will request a move to pre-1900.
This may be a potentially sensitive or controversial thread, as it will deal with an alternate Bosnian War, so let me just put this up here: what happened during the war was sickening and all sides have done horrible things that deserve nothing but condemnation. I do not condone anything messed up that may appear in this thread.
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I've seen countless threads on Serbia winning the Bosnian War (i.e. Bosnia is carved up) or having a Greater Serbia, and there are some threads on Croatia coming out bigger as well. But I'm not here to try to accomplish one of those two. I want to try to create a scenario wherein not the Serbs or Croats, but the Bosniaks win the Bosnian War.
A good example of what I'm looking for is Croatia. Croatia also had to deal with a breakaway Serb state, the Republic of Serbian Krajina. However, unlike in Bosnia with the Republika Srpska, Krajina was completely disbanded by the Croats after they successfully occupied it militarily (Operation Flash/Storm), and the bulk of its Serb population left Croatia shortly thereafter. How could the Bosniaks similarly defeat the Republika Srpska?
I've seen it stated that the Serbs' position had gotten pretty bad in 1995, and that, had Izetbegovic not agreed to the ceasefire, he could've captured Banja Luka if he wanted to, which would've almost certainly led to the collapse of the Republika Srpska. How accurate is this, though?
On a sidenote: I'm not sure if the 1990's demographics of B&H made a Bosniak victory plausible. Would it help if, with a pre-1900 PoD (which would require this thread to be moved there), the demographics in Bosnia were different, or its borders were changed? Say if there are more Muslims/Bosniaks somehow (so that the Serbs/Croats have less of a numbers advantage), or that somehow, Sandzak is part of Bosnia, or even both. I'm just spitballing here.
Again, I do not condone things like ethnic cleansing or any of the sort. I'm just trying to find a way for the Bosniaks to win the Bosnian War just like the Croats won the Croatian War of Independence.
This may be a potentially sensitive or controversial thread, as it will deal with an alternate Bosnian War, so let me just put this up here: what happened during the war was sickening and all sides have done horrible things that deserve nothing but condemnation. I do not condone anything messed up that may appear in this thread.
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I've seen countless threads on Serbia winning the Bosnian War (i.e. Bosnia is carved up) or having a Greater Serbia, and there are some threads on Croatia coming out bigger as well. But I'm not here to try to accomplish one of those two. I want to try to create a scenario wherein not the Serbs or Croats, but the Bosniaks win the Bosnian War.
A good example of what I'm looking for is Croatia. Croatia also had to deal with a breakaway Serb state, the Republic of Serbian Krajina. However, unlike in Bosnia with the Republika Srpska, Krajina was completely disbanded by the Croats after they successfully occupied it militarily (Operation Flash/Storm), and the bulk of its Serb population left Croatia shortly thereafter. How could the Bosniaks similarly defeat the Republika Srpska?
I've seen it stated that the Serbs' position had gotten pretty bad in 1995, and that, had Izetbegovic not agreed to the ceasefire, he could've captured Banja Luka if he wanted to, which would've almost certainly led to the collapse of the Republika Srpska. How accurate is this, though?
On a sidenote: I'm not sure if the 1990's demographics of B&H made a Bosniak victory plausible. Would it help if, with a pre-1900 PoD (which would require this thread to be moved there), the demographics in Bosnia were different, or its borders were changed? Say if there are more Muslims/Bosniaks somehow (so that the Serbs/Croats have less of a numbers advantage), or that somehow, Sandzak is part of Bosnia, or even both. I'm just spitballing here.
Again, I do not condone things like ethnic cleansing or any of the sort. I'm just trying to find a way for the Bosniaks to win the Bosnian War just like the Croats won the Croatian War of Independence.