The Bosnian Serb Army has sufficient amounts of weapons and ammunition (some say too much) but the problem is food and clothes and other small things. There’s also the donor system: well-off soldiers pay several hundred DEM and get seven to 10 days leave (the price varies from unit to unit). The money collected that way is used for food, […]

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