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Sometimes at dusk, sometimes at dawn, when the dim gray light shrouds them from the enemy, commandos of the mainly Muslim Bosnian army launch coordinated attacks on Serb positions. Using their advantage in manpower, the Bosnian troops pick their way around the enemy's heavy tanks and guns, ambushing troops or blasting through sparsely defended encampments...
...course of two weeks, these new tactics have served the Bosnian government well: for the first time in 31 months of war, they are poking through the overextended lines of the Bosnian Serb army. Government forces have retaken 60 sq. mi. of territory from the Serbs near Bihac in the north, made significant gains around strategic Mount Igman overlooking the capital of Sarajevo and recaptured the town of Kupres and perhaps an additional 40 sq. mi. in central Bosnia...
...forlorn quartet of Bosnian Serb tanks abandoned in the mountains south of Sarajevo last week -- their fuel tanks parched dry and deserted by once proud Serb soldiers -- signaled critical changes on the frontlines as the Balkan war enters its third winter. The government's gains are still limited, but the string of tactical successes is sparking new reassessments about the conflict...
...Bosnians owe much of their reversal of fortune to the adoption of the successful guerrilla tactics used by Tito's communists in the former Yugoslavia almost a half-century ago. Bosnian army units, some with barely 100 men, began ambushing Serb forces at 16 different locations around the country. Instead of the frontal assaults that foundered against the Serbs' superior firepower, says U.N. spokesman Paul Risley in Zagreb, the Bosnians "are employing commando tactics to grab territory." The breadth of the government offensive has exposed how thin the Serb defenses are: reinforcements dispatched to the Bihac region came from Kupres...
...Muslims want war, they'll get it. Radovan Karadzic said as members of a self-prodairned. Bosnian Serb assembly gathered to consider declaring a formal state...