FOREWORD
Immediately upon crossing the Sava River into Bosnia-Herzegovina, Task Force Eagle (TFE) was faced with the enormous task of establishing a zone of separation (ZOS) between the former warring factions. This task, a first in our military history, was accomplished within 30 days of the start of the deployment. The magnitude of the effort is nearly incomprehensible given the ZOS snakes over 1,000 miles of a war-torn countryside that contains millions of mines, thousands of bunkers, and hundreds of miles of trenchlines. Not to mention the fact that those warring factions, having been engaged in intense combat for over four years, would be required to jointly develop and execute a plan that would entail the removal of the mines and fortifications within the ZOS.
The responsibility of verifying the work of the factions and ensuring compliance with the requirements agreed upon at Dayton and outlined in the General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP) - - rested squarely on the shoulders of the soldiers and leaders of TFE.
This newsletter provides the U. S. Army with the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by TFE forces in establishing the ZOS. The intended endstate is that the reader, if given the task to plan the establishment of a ZOS, could do so, unencumbered by the fog of complete uncertainty on the nature of the mission. The development of many of the TTPs contained in this document began at the Combat Maneuver Training Center (CMTC) in Hohenfels, GE. The lessons learned from that training were refined and cultivated during actual operations in the former Yugoslavia.
The compilation of the lessons could not have been complete without the contributions of the following members of TFE who selflessly gave of their valuable time to assist in the documentation of the information contained in this newsletter:
| COL Greg Fontenot | CPT Mark Vara |
| LTC Christian deGraff | CPT Eric Stor |
| LTC Tony Cucolo | CPT Chris Payne |
| LTC Greg Stone | CPT Paul Pardew |
| LTC Todd Semonite | 1LT Jeremy Bushyaeger |
| MAJ Mark Loring | SFC Eugene Spencer |
This newsletter is designed for your use and dissemination. If your unit has identified other relevant lessons or information, please share them with the rest of the U.S. Army by contacting CALL at DSN 552-2255 or 3035, FAX DSN 552-9564, or commercial (913) 684-9564. Our E-mail address is call@leavenworth.army.mil and our WWW home page is: http://call.army.mil/call.htm. Be sure to include your phone number and complete address when contacting us.
EDWARD
J. FITZGERALD III
COL,
IN
Director,
Center for Army Lessons Learned
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