The army was disintegrating - as the non-Serb members were DEFECTING. This included ethnic Croat pilots who simply flew their planes to Croatia, and Slovene, Croat, Bosnian Muslim and Albanian soldiers who decided to fight for separatism.
Actually many ethnic Albanian members of the JNA ended up fighting for Croatia - Agim Ceku, Tahir Zemaj, Rahim Ademi.
As well, many barracks in Croatia and Bosnia were simply taken over at the start from the JNA.
Many JNA officers and soldiers defected, as well as pilots and those in the leadership.
And there were weapons and explosive plants which were under control of the Bosnian Muslims or Croats throughout the war.
The Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Muslims fought viciously over control of the Vitez explosives plant. The Croats had control of this, but they were almost in a state of collapse from the intense and repeated attacks of the Bosnian Muslim army until the ceasefire saved them.
I'd like to point out that YOUR BOSNIAN CROATS definitely called the Muslim forces and army - and knew their commanders, brigade numbers, military maneuvers, weaponry, and how they supplied and reinforced themselves, etc. - in their synopsis of the Croat-Muslim war.
Take this for example, which is some of the fighting of the weapons/explosive plant in Vitez, which the Croats held, but the Muslims wanted ("ABiH" is what they termed the Bosnian Muslim lead army):
Just over a month later, on December 8, the ABiH mounted a two-pronged attack from Zaselje and Stari Vitez with the apparent objective of taking the SPS factory. The Muslims failed again, but they achieved greater success just two weeks later when the ABiH mounted another determined attack on Vitez along the Preocica-Sivrino Selo-Pirici axis toward Krizancevo Selo on December 22. The HVO defenders were surprised; Krizancevo Selo, just fifteen hundred meters from the UNPROFOR Dutch/Belgian Transport Battalion compound near Dubravica, was taken; and between sixty and a hundred HVO soldiers and Croat civilians were killed in the village.1 The operation was conducted by the 2d Battalion, 325th Mountain Brigade, under the personal supervision of Gen. Rasim Delic, the ABiH commander, who was present in the 2d Battalion command post during the attack. In view of the determined ABiH attempts to take Vitez and the SPS factory, it is not surprising that a proposed ABiH-HVO Christmas cease-fire fell through due to ABiH intransigence.2
http://www.hercegbosna.org/engleski/war2.html
http://www.hercegbosna.org/engleski/operation.html
And in the following summary, it is claimed that 50,000 Muslims were cleansed from Croat controlled territory, while 150,000 Croats were cleansed from Muslim-controlled territory during the Croat-Muslim war:
October 1st - 5th, 1993
"…Using the absence of the HVO forces that were helping the evacuation of 6,000 ethnically cleansed Croats from the town of Kakanj, Muslim Army started with the coordinated attack on the municipality and city of Vares. Muslims were targeting only Croat villages that were already fully encircled, deprived of any humanitarian help, cutting the communications and using the civilians as "live shields….". The consequences of the attack were catastrophic for the Croats residing in Vares. 10,000 Croats from Vares and around 10,000 Croats from the area of Kakanj ultimately were expelled from Vares. During the Croat-Muslim war cca. 50,000 Bosnian Muslims have
been expelled from the area under HVO control, while the number of Croats ethnically
cleansed from the Bosnian Muslim Army held territories is around 150,000.
http://www.hercegbosna.org/engleski/cromusl.html
So you see, even your Croats, when they write of the Croat-Muslim war, call the Muslims forces an army. And further, this which I quote is only a bit, as there are many other named commanders of the Bosnian Muslim army which the Croats have accused of attacks on Croat civilians and other war crimes.
And that's not even to mention the foreign Mujahideen which committed ghastly mutilations on Croats and Serbs.
In one case Croat POWs accuse the Muslims of forcing them to kill the decapitated Serb civilian man after a ritual beheading by the Muslims.
The Muslim army did hold both Serbs and Croats in concentration camps and jails and Croats are the witnessed for this sometimes - so you see even some Croats do admit to the Muslims running either concentration camps or torture/murder jails of Serbs.
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