Actually, it is obvious that you are the one who is biased.
Based on?
Obviously not. After more than 20 years same (war) story. Ignoring history only guarantees repeating it.
So you don't deny he was paranoid about us, you just say that he had a reason to? Did he fear Battle of Krbava 2?
While you have bombarded us with large quantity of numbers, readers should be aware that those numbers and nomenclature are based on Bosniak war propaganda, not reality. While officially claiming 250.000 man army with 7 corpses (ABiH), you recognise that only 30.000 had automatic weapons and could be really called soldiers. No heavy weapons or armoured tanks also. This forces were capable only of defensive and urban fighting, not major offensives. Only territorial expansion happened when they attacked their allies and ethnicly clensed large parts of Central Bosnia of Croats. Against organised forces, either serbian or croatian, they scored zero victories, conquered zero teritory, untill operation Maestral in 1995.
Those numbers are based primarily on a book called Balkan battlegrounds composed by CIA office of Russian and European analysis in 2003. You can find the whole book 1, and others here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2504738-balkan-battlegrounds-vol-1.html
Only 30k had automatic weapons indeed by the end of 1992. By 95 that number grew to quarter million men under arms. You also seem to ignore the entire point, and that is that Bosniaks waged different kind of warfare as opposed to Serbs or Croats. Croatia had years of peace to build up it's arsenal before operation Storm in 95. Meanwhile Bosnia had to face constant struggle and hostile neighbors unwilling to let heavy weaponry in. I will suppose you have heard of elastic defense doctrine, enforced by General Ludendorf in WW1, which was extensively used to grind down the enemy. And indeed, Bosnian army focused on small, wide front offensives which gained several hundred yards of land, and forced Serbs and Croats into doing the same, for whom such tactics were unsustainable, whereas for Bosniaks, who lacked heavy weaponry, that tactic was the only one viable.
How many victories have Croats and Serbs scored against equally armed and equiped Bosnian forces? It's a moot point, it is indeed easy to claim wast conquest with advantages on your side, especially when faced with war of attrition. The facts on the ground show us the efectiveness of such tactics, primarily the total defeat of HVO in Bosnia, loss of 50% of Croat controled teritory within a year, and having to sign Washington agreement which disolved HZHB. Victors don't do that.
As for ethnic cleansing, neither you nor I are relevant in judging or classifying them. What we do know is that Croat leadership has been sentenced before international courts for war crimes, while Bosnian wasn't, and the most high profile Bosnian official, general Delic, was sentenced to 2 years for not doing all he could to prevent his subordinate units from committing executing 12 captured Serb soldiers.
As for attacking allies, the first attack ocurred in May of 92 when Croats and Bosniaks disputed division of the spoils from captured Kaonik barracks, which resulted in Croats attacking Bosniak troops. The same scenario repeated at Bratstvo arms factory in Novi Travnik and over Ljuta territorial arms depo, where scenario repeated of Croats refusing to share arms captured by join forces, and forcing their views with firepower. Need I even go into 93? I suggest to read the book I attached.
Bosnian Serb Army planned
operation Vaganj for August 3,1995, an attack on Bihać, Grahovo, Glamoč, Kupres, Livno, Mostar, Goražde. Serbs were not prepared for defence, but offense. Croation operation Storm, just a day before drove them into withdrawal. Serbs also planned operations called "Sarajevo, Spreča, Sadejstvo, Lukavac and Zvijezda" with goals of taking mountains Igman and Bjelašnica, and cutting of Tuzla from Sarajevo. Those are not plans of a defeated army. All those forces of ABiH that were listed above would have a heavy task simply stopping serbian offensive.
Hitler also planned his Welthaupstadt as Berlin crashed around him. The facts on the ground show Serbs had 80 000 men spread across 1100 kilometers of frontline, from whom they can manage to gather only 3200 men in the "intervention" units. To aid in visualization, imagine a line stretching from St Petersburg, Russia, to Kiev, Ukraine, all manned by merely 80 000 men.
This is a blatant unthrouth !
ABiH was nowhere near fighting capable in 1995. Bihać corps was on its last breath, barely fighting against serbian agression. This is all happening weeks after Srebrenica and Žepa masacres. If Bosniak army was that strong, why did it not stop Serbs in genocide ? Because they could not ! This numbers are fantasies of Sarajevo armchair generals.
Srebrenica and Zepa were defended by a single independent Division, same as Gorazde, and both areas were enclaves within sea of Serb teritory. You're talking Stalingrad managing to hold out from 42 to 45, all while surrounded by Serb units. Even so, those units managed to engage in limited offensive actions, resulting in the death of over 3000 Serb soldiers around Srebrenica. That is a complete military Brigade dead.
You are secondly, if I'm understanding you correctly, proposing that 5 Croat Brigades single handedly and out of goodness of their heart retook Bosniak teritory, while Bosniaks were incapable of anything for entire war? If you are going to acuse me of blatant untruth you'll need to provide more than your own words.
How could it stop? If they could reach Srebrenica then they could reach Drina and war would be over. And those numbers are provided by CIA analysts, who have nothing to do with Sarajevo.
After Washington agreements Croatian forces, both Croatian Army (HV) and Croatian Defence Council (HVO) waged several operations liberating large areas of Bosnia.
Cincar,
Zima (Winter) `94,
Skok 1,
Skok 2,
Ljeto (Summer) 95,
Maestral,
Južni potez (Southern move). Just in operation Maestral more than 5 % of BiH territory (>2550 sq.km) was liberated by HV and HVO forces. In operation Southern move they reached Banya Luka, and they droveserbs into panic. Forces of ABiH simply marched into evacuated serbian towns in western Bosnia. There were no battles.
Here is the CIA analysis of the events:
Or to put it simply, Bosnian army beats Serbs and is on verge of victory while Croats watch for days, and then decide to race into undefended town. And I won't even go about the further battles you listed. Croat wiki, vs CIA analyisis. On the other hand I do recomend to read the section of the book where those battles are indeed mentioned.
This wording is highly charged, offensive and untrue. It implies that Bosniak forces dissarmed Croatian forces, when in reality simply demobilisation happened, both of Croatians and of Bosniaks. Forces of Republic of Croatia (HV) returned into Croatia. According to peace treaty, they (ABiH and HVO) both became part of an Army of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
There is a huge diference between "central Bosnian authority" - created by Dayton peace accord, as an Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian joint armed forces and your implication of croatian forces being subject to Bosniak muslim Sarajevo control. You make it sound like they lost the war !
Bosniaks demobilized? Last I checked the 4th Corps remained at full strength, as did the 3rd and 7th, which faced Croats, while Croats were forced to cut down their military units to 5 "Guards brigades". And Croats did lose the war. They lost 50% of their teritory within a year of initiating conflict with Bosniaks, their separatist state of HZHB was disolved, and they had to subsume their forces and put them under central government control.
In any case, only Croat forces had an option of taking Banya Luka. And only them were threatened by Americans with an air attacks if they do not stop. USA was terrified of Serbia entering war, both in Bosnia and in Eastern Slavonia (Croatia).
Page 292 onwards deals with 95 and offensive operations, and calls HVO as "still playing minors league" and unable of conducting offensive operations. Read onwards from that page to gain better operational awareness.
Explanation of nomenclature:
Bosnian - Bosniak muslim, Croatian catholic or Serbian ortodox from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also any other minority
Bosniak - ethnic Bosnian muslim
I would really prefer if you didn't equate muslim and Bosniak. I am a Bosniak and not a muslim. It is plain insulting. Bosniaks are an ethnic group, not a religious one, originating from Bosnia. As simple showcase, Emir Kusturica was a muslim from Bosnia but was extensively engaged as a Serb in anti Bosniak effort, as well as VRS having a Mesa Selimovic brigade, composed of Bosnian Muslims of Serb ethnicity.