- Welcome to Hell.
- -Anonymous graffiti near 'Sniper Alley,'
Sarajevo
- "When people ask me whom do you
blame, I say give me the day
- and the month, and I'll tell
you."
- -Canadian Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, Commander
UNPROFOR Sarajevo: July 1992
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- In 1992, I had completed a second scenario pack for LEG called
Welcome to Hell: War In the Balkans Scenario Pack. The scenario
pack dealt with the breakup of Yugoslavia. These traumatic events were
the consequence of the fall of the Soviet Union, which saw the Warsaw
Pact crumble and collapse as a wave of reform and revolution swept
through Eastern Europe.
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- LEG ceased operations
before the manuscript could be completed. Reproduced in full
on these pages is the entire Welcome to Hell scenario pack.
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- INTRODUCTION
- The Balkan Peninsula has written much
of European and even World history. The cultural diversity of the
people of the Peninsula has led to substantial internal ethnic
friction over time while the location of the Peninsula on the borders
of Europe and Southwest Asia has meant that the region has been used
as a staging area for conquerors on both borders seeking to invade and
rule lands on the other side. Both internal and external
belligerence gained the Balkans the title of "powderkeg of
Europe," a title which has proved apt over time as
irredentist and nationalist pressures have kept the region in
perpetual conflict.
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- Now, with the removal of Communism
throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the people of the Balkans
are beginning to find their independent political identity in the
World, and this has thrown the Balkan nations into turmoil.
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- In Romania, a vicious dictator was
removed by a popular uprising. In Yugoslavia, the old borders
have been torn apart in a bloody civil war by people eager to express
their nationalism. And all across the Balkans, the decades of
communism have left a legacy of refugees, economic ruin, and political
uncertainty. These, combined with the blood spilled in the bitter
ethnic and revolutionary fighting have started the fuse on the
powderkeg burning again, and while there is little risk of the keg
detonating another World War, even local explosions have proved to
generate terrible misery and significant international repercussions.
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- This scenario pack features
a mix of scenarios for the Small Arms and Mechanized Combat System
scenarios, allowing the supplement to be used with both.
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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