Was thinking about the Balkans War in the 90s

Was thinking of a scenario where The Balkans War has minimal NATO intervention in say 1990s- and there's so many good scenarios, scenarios in which you could make it worse with that region let alone that war but mine is quite a simple premise.

Most goes IOTL. NATO does some bombing but not to the levels it did and the Bosnian Army and HVO press onwards to Banja Luka. Operation Storm is a resounding success as in IOTL. If not all forced to the table would the Croats especially, backed up by the Bosnians stop at liberation or do they push on and take on Serbia proper? Would create a lot of interesting and fun thread scenarios that, especially with alliances in that region! I will update this in due course.
 
Finally back with it. So anyway is it at all feasible for when the Serbs are beaten in the Bosnian and Croatian Krajina and Banja Luka falls probably after a lengthy siege and the Serbs are chased out of Croatia and Bosnia- at minimum in a political sense and probably overall, is there any scope for Croatia with Bosnian help to invade Serbia proper? I think yes- a military force with momentum vs a retreating, ragged enemy. Morale at separate. Could Croatia in the main and Bosnia to an extent have gone in and divvied up parts of Serbia?
 
I found these two maps on Wikipedia recently, of Greater Croatia and Greater Serbia

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I like those, great starting point! Croats could certainly annex some Serb territory I think, in League with Bosnians in 1995. Perhaps even a small greater Bosnia.
 
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Was thinking of a scenario where The Balkans War has minimal NATO intervention in say 1990s- and there's so many good scenarios, scenarios in which you could make it worse with that region let alone that war but mine is quite a simple premise.

Most goes IOTL. NATO does some bombing but not to the levels it did and the Bosnian Army and HVO press onwards to Banja Luka. Operation Storm is a resounding success as in IOTL. If not all forced to the table would the Croats especially, backed up by the Bosnians stop at liberation or do they push on and take on Serbia proper? Would create a lot of interesting and fun thread scenarios that, especially with alliances in that region! I will update this in due course.
In my opinion they wouldn't be able push to Serbia proper. Very likely they wouldn't be even able to occupy Serbian parts of Bosna but let's say they would manage occupation and ethnically clean Bosna same way Croats managed after Storm. That would be it.
 
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