Gen. Lecointre also notably warned early about the probable return of near-peer conflicts in the World. At the time where anti-terror ops were the standard warfare. This is competence and merit.
You know, after the neo-con have been proven to be some of the most moronic and cowardly people ever, trying to mimic old francophobe jokes from that era in a really stupid manner is not very...impressing.
They've always been pushing the UN to see how much they could get away with, but they knew once the UN forces attack, it means they'll have the entire EU on their back. Pretty much why they stopped attacking
To be fair that's an exaggeration, they more-so earned the respect of their enemy. The war was almost over and there had been plenty of "fucking" with the French in the previous years of the conflict.
@@alexion2001 I don't think that's an exaggeration. The UN engagement rules were (and still are) pure garbage. It's the only reason the Serbs were wilding this much against western peace keepers. The west, notably the Americans, French and British, had all the means back then to decisively end that nonsense and it had no business lasting as long as it did. There were indeed previous incidents like you said with a few French peace keepers being targeted and killed by Serbian snipers for example. And I think that's where the remnants of the pro-Serbia bias from French elite came into play. Mitterand was notoriously partial to Serbia and Chirac had no ill-will either. France should've taken decisive action from the beginning beyond the UN scope when these incidents happened. Plenty of fuckery could've been either avoided or properly re-served to the Serbs.
It served him the most in 2003 when he opposed the invasion of Iraq. He knew well how it would end up. He also knew there was no tie between Al Qaida and the Ba'ath party.
The French have a knackered of not pussy footing around when it's needed. Mali is another example. Us English (latterly, British) have a bit of "history" with our neighbours but there's no doubt about it, they deserve alot of respect. Most importantly, they can even make a good drop of cider🇫🇷🍻🇬🇧
In medieval times, the Italians had a name for the charging french knight, the "furia francese" or french fury. I guess that 400 years later the Serbs got a taste of it, and they didn't like it. And yes, I know there was a french armored vehicle delivering explosive 90mm thick baguettes to the Serbs with a velocity that Uber eat drivers would only dream of.
The ghosts of ancient French knights and men at arms were with them that day just like the fabled ghostly longbowmen that turned around a German charge for the British during ww1
Bunch of french patting each other on the back reminiscing about how tough they used to be. Where was that same energy when the Vikings came to visit. That "french fury" got changed for "Merde, I guess we'll just give them Normandie?" 😅
@@jim99west46 I'm talking about large axe wielding Danes, Norwegians and Swedes and you want to talk about the English? They're not even in Europe anymore. Leave means leave.
Those of us who speak French understand how difficult it is to say names in another language. While sometimes it's difficult to understand, it gives us a picture of the battle which is the important thing. Good for you!
Your french names's pronounciation is pretty good and understandable, except for the main character : Lecointre. But it's a french name tipycally hard to pronounce for an anglo-saxon speaker, then don't worry, all's fine. Anyway, good job and thanks for exhuming this fierce piece of french combat.
I have the honour to have been there, 93-94, and there are many who deserve much recognition. Vive la France, et mon respect éternel. Je l'ai dit ... l'amitié des cousins dans les alpes.
Salut J'avais 2 ans, donc je ne connais pas le contexte. Les interventions des soldats FR à cette époque étaient effectués par des militaires pro ? Quoiqu'il en soit, merci pour ton service ! Sorry for baguette speaking. But your name's prononciations are OK
@@LaKawotte Bonjour jeune homme. Tout d'abord la France a une armée professionnelle que depuis 1999 donc OUI les interventions de la France avant cette date comprenaient aussi des appelés mais qui souscrivaient un contrat de 6 mois ou d'un an pour partir en OPEX. C'était le contrat AVAE : appelé volontaire actions extérieures. Ce contrat était en complément du contrat ASL puis VSL : appelé service long puis volontaire service long qui rajoutait 12 mois au 12 mois (puis 10 mois) de service national. Ils étaient donc présents lors de la 1ere intervention de la 1ere guerre du Golfe (sauf dans l’Armée de Terre) puis dans les contributions françaises des missions ONU dans les Balkans puis dans les interventions de l'OTAN dans les Balkans (toutes les Armées) et cela jusqu'en 1999, date de fin de la conscription. J'ai eu 2 morts dans mon unité en 92 tués par des snipers bosniaques à Sarajevo, c'étaient des appelés VSL. D'autres aussi sont morts et personne n'en parle. L'histoire même récente de notre pays n'est plus enseignée, ceci explique que tu ne connais pas ce qui s'est passé il y a à peine 40 ans. De même que l’on retient que c’est le président serbe le fautif alors que finalement les bosniaques ont tués plus de français que les serbes qui au passage ont toujours été nos alliés. Une manipulation de plus des USA appuyées par la CIA pour contrer la Russie et tenter de mater le président serbe qui avait des vues de souveraineté.
@@robertoborsalino1855 Très bien connu cette époque, un ami dans le cadre de son VSL est parti en Bosnie, c'était en 93. L'amitié Franco Serbe pour la connaître faut remonter à la première guerre mondiale. Et parler d'un front absent de tous les manuels scolaires, le front d'Orient. Un excellent film français relate cet épisode, c'est le capitaine Conan de Bertrand Tavernier. Film qui n'a pas rencontrer le succès malheureusement. Faut s'intéresser aussi au général Franchet d'Espèrey qui en Serbie est considéré comme un héro national. Ou encore lire le livre du colonel Hogard, "L'Europe est morte à Pristina".
One important thing that was not said and it was a scandal in France when it was revealed was that UN mandate said that they should not shoot or fight at all cost. So a lot of times they had to let the serbian take their weapons without reacting due to the orders. From that time, France never operated without being allowed to shoot if they think it's needed.
Meanwhile the Swedish politicians hated the colonel Ulf Henricsson, commander of NORDBAT. He got the nickname Sherif of Vares, because he followed the principles of 'Mission Command', meaning orders could be bent or broken if it meant the objective was achieved. So he ordered the units under his command to shoot back if fired upon, and attack if civilians were at risk.
A couple of additional things you may find interesting: - The decision to immediately counter-attack was taken by the then recently elected French President: Jacques Chirac. President Chirac in his youth had served as an infantry officer in the Algerian war of independance and took a very dim view to French officers being taken hostage and paraded on TV. - The decision to entirely bypass the UN chain of command was taken because there were Russian officers embeded in that chain of comnmand and it was feared by the French command that those russian officers would immediately inform the Serbs commandos of any French counter-attack. Russia was seen as friendly to the Serbs' cause. Bypassing the whole UN chain of command would enable to retain the element of surprise.
The main reason that the decision was taken immediatly after receiving president Chiriac aggrément was simple to understand : The force commander of UNPROFOR was the french general Janvier who was the 6 light armored division former commander ( 1991-1993) ! So the chain of command was also simple : Chirac french president to general Janvier Force commander of UNPROFOR . What else.
One more interesting fact is that French, alongside other NATO members fought on the side of Al Qaeda (proxies) in Bosnia, and would do the same in Kosovo few years later - a place with most foreign ISIS fighters. Imagine that in post 9/11 context...As Dutch UN soldier said - Are we sure we know who the good guys are here?
I was there with the 6 light armored division in Dec. 96! War was over but surrounding was the same. Hurrah for France and respect to Chirac who also took risk during this period and few days after having elected president of France.
If the French had not bypassed the UN chain of command, the prisoners would still be on the bridge almost 30 years later, and the UN chief would be still asking for a cease fire.
@@gupler then the French soldiers who died in this charge (soldiers Marcel Amaru and Jacky Humblot) are inventions. We're hiding them from their families still to this day ? The soldiers who took part all invented it ? You're ridiculous
Important tidbit: Chirac, unlike most European heads of state at that point, had both served as an officer and had seen combat. He understood the need for a decisive action, not negotiations. If the bridge had stayed under Serb control, they would have been able to penetrate into the city itself.
@@6belzebuth6 No, he means : french charge in Battle of Heartbreak Ridge, Korea. The (south) Koreans today have a dedicated monument to those French Soldiers under UN flag
January 7, 1951: in Wonju, the 1000 mens of the French UN Battalion receive the mission of covering the flank of the retreating 2nd American Division. They held five days of uninterrupted combat, going as far as hand-to-hand combat and the bayonet, with their weapons frozen by -20°c. Thus stopping the advance of the Sino-North Korean army.
Thanks to those French soldiers for actually doing something to protect their own and our population of a foreign language and religion. Thank you for your service and tremendous sacrifice of the fallen. After only hearing about the disgraceful actions and complete failure of the dutch UN forces, I'm so happy that I came across this video so that I may venerate the fallen and the living who risked everything on that day. May God bless the French people, the soldiers who fought to defend my people and their families.
this and probably also Rwanda explain why France doesn't operate UNDER the UN banner anymore, due to the ROE... they will operate alongside the UN troupes, often doing the fighting when and where it's needed. and for those saying that the French had nothing to fear from the "Serbs", let's not forget that the sniper didn't care at all that the machine operators building a protective wall in a city there (Sarajevo?) didn't care at all that he was French and not fighting at the time, only protecting the UN peacekeeping force is a nice sentiment, but it's only as efficient as the waring parties allow it. The ROE are simply stupid if the opposings forces don't respect the "rules".
The thing with snipers in Sarajevo is that Muslim leadership had paramilitary group wich was instructed to shoot civilians and peacekeepers just so they could blame Serbs for it, there were guys who spoke up about it, and guess what, they are all dead now.
"nothing to fear from the Serbs" is the most ludicrous phrase ever uttered. It's almost as stupid as talking about "Russian peace". Serbs regularly took hostages, used human shields, committed horrible atrocities that were worse than what the Nazi army did during WW2 (the Wehrmacht didn't mass-rape women before beating them to death, which the Serbs did often).
And let's not forgot the constant and repeated humiliations the UNPROFOR had to endure for years of mandate, having to halt humanitarian convoys and even their own supply convoys at the whim of any local petty "warlord" or greater general (mostly on the Serbian side, including on Serbia's territory by official Serbian authorities). And there was no muslim sniper in disguise to make Bosnian Serbs seen as the bad by the UNO and the rest of the world. Not there, in Serbs-controlled mountain passes and border posts. Congrats, they managed to piss off most of the military who werved with UNO. In the end, a few years later, Serbs sadly were payed back for their reputation and misconduct when it became obvious to the others that they would eventually consider "shitting" at the face of the UNO again, backed by their big brother at the UNSC. The international communauty made not the mistake to let them move first, and western public opinions did not object the doings of the Coalition. I mean, this explained that.
I remember this incident, Serbs had made it a habit of "Capturing" UN peacekeepers and then making a show of them as human shields, they used to do the same with Canadians. ROE was basically to let it happen, eventually the French had enough ...
@@gupler I remember stories of guys who did UN tours in the former Yugoslavia.. They would go out and seize a bunch of weapons during the day and the local "militias" would come over and take them back at gunpoint as soon as the sun went down. UN ended up often running the armories for local militias.
@@robertsmith4681 Yep, at one point they even had fixed rates. Hell, you the entire DMZ zone around Srebrenica with future Alqaeda members was armed to the teeth thanks to the UN.
Thanks a lot for this report. The two last bayonet charge were made by french infantry. In Corea in 1951 against waves of chinese soldiers, and in Vrbanja. After this attack of the famous "Bataillon français" in Corea incorporated into the 21 US Infantry Regiment, US general M. Ridgway told "All US units will be reminded that bayonet is much more than just a can opener!" 😉
Que Dieu benisse la France! CQC? It doesn't get any more intense than that! "You will get revenge from the fear that was inflicted upon you." Words to remember. Victory, then peace and prosperity. (Thanks for sharing with us. New sub.)
Hi Justin, I'd not heard about this action so thank you for bringing it to my attention. I have a massive interest in the French army after Napoleon, but being from Britain we don't hear much about the smaller actions of the French. I'll have to find out more about this action.
I hold from Gal Gobillard who was in charge of the french troops that he requested Pdt Chirac authorisation to counter attack. Chirac refused. Gobillard ordered the attack. Shortly after the success of the operation Gobillard received the order to attack from Chirac... He also told me that Lecointre called him during the attack and told him : Gal I already have two men down what are your orders ?. Attack Lecointre attack was the answer.
@@snowman8052 Quand j'étains en Centrafriqueen 1996 et qu'on a perdue deux para de chez nous, 24 h plus tard on avait reçus l'ordre du plus haut sommet de l'état de régler l'affaire et encore 24 plus tard on attaquait le camp Kassai. Bilan de ces deux jours soldat français mort 2, rebelle centrafricain 10. Ratio 1 pour 5, aprés cela on n'a plus été emmerdé par les rebelles.
Nice topic, good job 👌. I just have a observation: I'm pretty sure than in 1954, during the Indochina (Vietnam) war, for example in Dien Bien Phu battle (so after Korean War), French did many combats with Bayonets against Vietminh.
Thank you for your video which pays tribute to the courage of the French soldiers. You may be interested in the little-known story of "Jules Beaulieu", in 1940 he heroically held a stand alone against German soldiers. Here is a French link to this story: ua-cam.com/video/PnmtW-DX9Yg/v-deo.htmlsi=DLJnL9QeeGJ0035e Sorry for my very bad english. Hello from France
@@anthonyluccini1015 Yes!... and I'm Greek... we also call the Swiss by their ancient name ''Helveti''... we call all ancient ppl whom we knew well back then, by their ancient names, even though everybody's called us the hated degrading name our enemies gave us [greeks]... we are Hellines.[the "'H'' is always silent!] We live in Hellas [or Helada]... but don't worry ''world''... we don't hate you for not knowing better...
Bonjour, Je suis un vétéran français de cette époque. Merci pour vos commentaires de respect. Chez nous en France, ce n’est pas la même chose malheureusement.
C’est le moins qu’on puisse dire. J’ai toujours été jaloux des soldats américains, toujours bien accueilli et respectés à leur retour de mission. Pour nous, le retour c’est plutôt la douche froide…
@@KMS2468 Je ne sais pas ce qui te fais dire ça, mais j'y ai été plusieurs fois, et je travail au quotidien avec des américains et j'ai pu constater directement que, même si c'est pas comme les films, les remerciements ne sont pas une légende. Sans être parfait, c'est carrément mieux que chez nous au moins sur ce point précis. Les allées d'honneur pour les soldats morts au combat se font régulièrement, sur des km. Ici, c'est dans l'indifférence totale que mes frères d'armes sont rentrés dans des boites...
@@snowman8052 tu as raison c'est clairement mieux que chez nous pour les aspects que tu cites. Je tire ca de l'expérience de deux gars avec qui j'ai discuté et pour qui l'effet "welcome home" s'était très vite dissipé après les cérémonies. Mais effectivement je ne suis pas qualifié pour en tirer des conclusions générales.
If the Petit Caporal can take the Lodi bridge only using balls and bayonets then LeCointre can take the Verbanjia bridge only using bally and bayonets.
I went to Sarajevo in 1996 for a year as a NATO soldier and stayed as a U.S. civilian until 2000. Your pronunciation wasn’t too bad. Just remember the people of the former Yugoslavia pronounce the letter “J” as we pronounce “Y.”
You did great regarding French name pronounciation, with the exception of Lecointre but honestly it would have been impossible to pronounce remotely correctly by a non French speaking person, so kudos to you !
Actually you were pretty good at most of FR names... (I am from there). One suggestion: i heard, in the same war the current Czech President, as the time an officer did lead a saving mission, helping to save some FR UN Peacekeepers... might be interesting topic for you
So why are we so timid in the face of Putin, he is exactly the same. If the West had slapped him down in 2014 then we wouldn't have the current situation.
Hey great video, I'm not sure if anyone gave you a way to correctly pronounce Lecointre, but here's my phonetic suggestion: LE_CO_ANT_TRR. instead of LE_COY_NAY_TRAY. Does it make sense?
UN forces didn't do ANYTHING that contributed to a faster ending of the war. I can only say to the French soldiers WELL DONE. It was the resilience of Bosnian Army (ABIH) that made the difference. Even Croats at one point backstabbed us and started collaborating with Serbian army. And then later Croat and Bosnian army started collaborating again after they realized they can't crush Bosnian Army. Bosnian Army had embargo on weapons import so we didn't have the right to defend ourselves. The whole world watched how they massacre innocent civilians. That happened because Bosnian army was mostly Muslims. And being a Muslim in Islamophobic Europe means that they even wanted us to be exterminated. When the Serbs and Croats are attacking us there were NO peace talks. As soon as Bosnian side repels the attack and goes on counteroffensive UN stops everything and we go to peace talks. This happened quite often. And DON'T ever say it was a "civil war" ! IT WAS AN AGGRESSION on independent and UN recognized country !!! REPUBLIC of BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA With the help of local separatist. Have a nice day and don't talk about politics if you have no clue about it. BYE
Pored holandjana koji su bukvalno stajali tu dok su genocid gledali kako se provodi, drago mi je vidit da je barem neko bio spreman zivot dati od UN vojnika da s**e zaustavi u kriminalu. Znam da nije puno brate al em krscani em stranci da zivot dadnu u odbrani muslimanske drzave je stran pojam, ali postujem ovu francusku brigadu za njihovu zrtvu.
Few little details, general Hervé Gobilliard take alone without reffering to Paris the decision to retake the bridge. French soldiers involved were not "marines" but "fusiliers marins" (nickname marsouins), more specialised in amphibious operation and more professionnal than common mechanised or motorised infantry (in those times). And last the "bayonet charge" was the common french way of conducting a (costly) frontal assault. Orders were simple : Baïonnette au canon - En avant!. You were supposed to walk, while shooting. Uh.
Il y a une grosse différence entre marsouin ( infanterie de marine donc armée de terre) et fusilier marin ( marine nationale) . Le surnom des Fusiliers marins est Sako et non marsouin.
@@macgarns Oui. Mais c'est pour éviter la confusion avec leurs "Marines" qui est un corps autonome, dont la taille avoisine toute l'armée française, à la louche.
@@macgarns Tenez je me reprends. ;-) Essayez d'expliquer à un étranger qu'un Rima était bien un Régiment d'infanterie de Marine, parfois affecté à l'entretien d'un camp militaire et qu'un fusilier marin était surtout un planton affecté à la garde des bases navales. Alors qu'un béret vert (commandos marine, genre pas plus de 100) font partie des forces spéciales ?
Bonjour camarade, Les troupes de marine françaises sont bien l'équivalent des marines US ou royal marines UK. Les fusiliers marins sont des unités propre à la marine. Ici il s'agit d'infanterie de marine du 3ème RIMa si mes souvensont bons 😊
Les fusiliers marins en France sont des marins...,la c'est les troupes infanterie de marins "les marsouins" ils sont les anciens troupes infanterie coloniale donc c'est des troupes d'infanterie de l'armée de terre ...🤔!! 🇲🇫🇲🇫 La France a une réputation de d'attaque a baionnette depuis longtemps...,en Corée les français avaient donné une charge aussi .🇲🇫🇲🇫
This whole episode never made any sense! France had a very good relationship with the federal republica of yugoslavia. France with Britain led a campaign of appeasement with yugoslavia! Also, britain and france were strictly against lifting the illegal arms embargo imposed on croatia and bosnia!
And not withstanding perhaps this example, all those "peacekeeping" operations are completely useless. They were deployed to south Lebanon - their job was to ensure that Hamas would not return to the south Lebanon, so how did that work out? And there are many more example.
This was great. I'd actually love to hear more about peace keeping operations; successes, failures, lessons learned. I feel like we only hear about the most extreme bits, and we tend to only hear about our own troops. I hadn't heard about this one, and I'm glad I did. Thank you!
1) it's not "Serbs" but Chetniks : fascist Serbs. Not all Serbs where complicit, for exemple the "saviour" of Sarajevo, former Col. Jovan DIVJAK of the then Yougoslavian Army, now a retired General of the Bosnian Army, chose the Bosnian side and helped organise defences that saved the city as well as found the Bosnian Army. The distinction between Serbs and Chetniks is important. 2) The reason why, up to Chirac's presidency, the French troops where reluctant when not complicit (remember Srebrenica) to Chetniks forces is because France and Serbia having been allies, if only friends, ever since WW1, with strong ties between both armies. That changed with the Vrbanja Bridge events, and even more so with the replacement of UN French troops by FFL troops in Sarajevo and the clear presidential orders to fight back if attacked ... that is ultimately what led to the end of the siege of Sarajevo, specifically when the FFL shelled the Chetnik positions on the surrounding mountains which lead to their forces retreating out of range.
Ај не сери гњидо издајничка, ти би радије да нас балије закољу и убијају него да браниш свој народ Молим те реци ми да ли имаш имало срама да ли знаш бре шта су нам балије и усташе радили? Не јер не желиш да их наљутиш ето зато .
First, that's not what a Chetnik is strictly speaking, it's a nickname. Second, those were not Serbs but Bosnians, as opposed to the surrounded BosniaKs. The act of shelling the city was frowned upon by Serbian higher ups, to the point of Milosevic himself "awarding" Sarajevo to Bosniaks because "those cowards shelled you from the mountains" during the talks.
Your presentation was very interesting. Have you covered the Medak Pocket incident when Croatian Forces assaulted Canadian peacekeeping troops? September 1993.
Croatian forces attacked Serb positions, Canadians aided Serbs. As did most of western countries in the '90s by implementing trade embargos on Croatia and Bosnia, although they knew very well that the Serbs have advantage in firepower. Same did the Dutch in Srebrenica and British in Livno. Only country that (secretly) helped Croatia was Russia (the irony), and for Bosniaks, Turkey and Iran. Unfortunately, we are "allies" in NATO now but we remember who stabbed us in the back, let's hope we never had to fight side by side with Canadians..
@@louisjosephlauziere4123 That's it? Are you not going to talk about how the brave ubermenschen went to a foreign country to teach the Balkan Slavs western values? Thank God, you are becoming a minority in your own country..😉
You're really bad with french names. Like, very very bad... 😉 Really it's not that bad. I've heard worse pronunciation. Meanwhile, it's an interesting video. Thx.
Did you know this operation Operation Bully Bashing is the name given to the military confrontation between Bosnian Serb military forces and Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish combat units composing the United Nations Protection Force's (UNPROFOR) Nordic Battalion (NORDBAT 2), outside of the city of Tuzla on 29 April 1994.
Am sorry, that operation wasnt the "linchpin, turning point of the entire conflict" - you dont know what you are talking about...whatsoever...this just indicate that you have an outside take and perspective and a narrow one that is on the developments that lead to the failed Dayton Accord....
I will just remind you that the French government was the one that in the UN and on the European level was acting to prevent any help to be delivered to Arm BiH as they had their own strategic ambitions for Serbia. The French voice was among the most significant in stopping Germany from sending Bundeswehr in the Balkans to protect newly independent Croatia and Bosnia.
You have to understand that French politics and French people are not the same, hell, even in the video it says that politics were against the move while the people were ok with it.
@@julmar9153 People were brainwashed in believing that Serbs were animals back then, which is visible to this day. But in reality Serbs didn't do anything that wasn't done to them already.
I enjoy Justin’s commentary. I remember him from a few episodes during Task & Purpose early days. I subbed to his channel shortly thereafter. He has a unique perspective on the military and on life in general.
I really would like to see videos about the portuguese de-colonization wars in africa. You can not find anything on the topic. I think Task and Purpose is the perfect platform to explore that conflict.
Gen. Lecointre also notably warned early about the probable return of near-peer conflicts in the World. At the time where anti-terror ops were the standard warfare.
This is competence and merit.
"le-KWAHN-truh" = Lecointre
The French were probably actually trying to retreat but the hostage takers just happened to be in the way
Next time try to be funny
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You know, after the neo-con have been proven to be some of the most moronic and cowardly people ever, trying to mimic old francophobe jokes from that era in a really stupid manner is not very...impressing.
It is probably a teenage keyboard warrior who cannot even locate France on a laptop ☺️
Imagine scaring your enemy so much with a single charge that they decide to not fuck with you anymore lmao
They've always been pushing the UN to see how much they could get away with, but they knew once the UN forces attack, it means they'll have the entire EU on their back. Pretty much why they stopped attacking
To be fair that's an exaggeration, they more-so earned the respect of their enemy. The war was almost over and there had been plenty of "fucking" with the French in the previous years of the conflict.
I mean, they also had armored cars and APCs assisting them....
@@alexion2001 I don't think that's an exaggeration. The UN engagement rules were (and still are) pure garbage. It's the only reason the Serbs were wilding this much against western peace keepers. The west, notably the Americans, French and British, had all the means back then to decisively end that nonsense and it had no business lasting as long as it did. There were indeed previous incidents like you said with a few French peace keepers being targeted and killed by Serbian snipers for example. And I think that's where the remnants of the pro-Serbia bias from French elite came into play. Mitterand was notoriously partial to Serbia and Chirac had no ill-will either. France should've taken decisive action from the beginning beyond the UN scope when these incidents happened. Plenty of fuckery could've been either avoided or properly re-served to the Serbs.
And that is how one grocery shops at Trader Joe's, kids.
It did help that Pres. Jacques Chirac had been a reserve officer serving during the Algerian War and was familiar with all things military.
It served him the most in 2003 when he opposed the invasion of Iraq.
He knew well how it would end up. He also knew there was no tie between Al Qaida and the Ba'ath party.
@@BruneSixtine ... and he knew there were no WMD... that it was all a lie. Hans Blix and his whole team in Irak also knew it!
Especially with humanitarian aspects and following the rules of engagement ;-)
The French have a knackered of not pussy footing around when it's needed. Mali is another example. Us English (latterly, British) have a bit of "history" with our neighbours but there's no doubt about it, they deserve alot of respect. Most importantly, they can even make a good drop of cider🇫🇷🍻🇬🇧
"England is a french colony that turned bad" - Clemenceau. 😅
Respect to our Brits brothers.
In medieval times, the Italians had a name for the charging french knight, the "furia francese" or french fury. I guess that 400 years later the Serbs got a taste of it, and they didn't like it. And yes, I know there was a french armored vehicle delivering explosive 90mm thick baguettes to the Serbs with a velocity that Uber eat drivers would only dream of.
The ghosts of ancient French knights and men at arms were with them that day just like the fabled ghostly longbowmen that turned around a German charge for the British during ww1
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Ah, the Angels of Mons.
Bunch of french patting each other on the back reminiscing about how tough they used to be. Where was that same energy when the Vikings came to visit. That "french fury" got changed for "Merde, I guess we'll just give them Normandie?" 😅
@@Teutathisso where are the ghosts of the english weasels that failed to stop the French army in 1066 that captured London in 30 days?
@@jim99west46 I'm talking about large axe wielding Danes, Norwegians and Swedes and you want to talk about the English? They're not even in Europe anymore. Leave means leave.
Those of us who speak French understand how difficult it is to say names in another language. While sometimes it's difficult to understand, it gives us a picture of the battle which is the important thing. Good for you!
Your french names's pronounciation is pretty good and understandable, except for the main character : Lecointre. But it's a french name tipycally hard to pronounce for an anglo-saxon speaker, then don't worry, all's fine. Anyway, good job and thanks for exhuming this fierce piece of french combat.
Attendez qu'il parle de Franchet d'Esperey
I have the honour to have been there, 93-94, and there are many who deserve much recognition. Vive la France, et mon respect éternel. Je l'ai dit ... l'amitié des cousins dans les alpes.
Salut
J'avais 2 ans, donc je ne connais pas le contexte.
Les interventions des soldats FR à cette époque étaient effectués par des militaires pro ?
Quoiqu'il en soit, merci pour ton service !
Sorry for baguette speaking. But your name's prononciations are OK
@@LaKawotte oui il s'agissait de l'armée régulière et non des hommes du service militaire qui il me semble était suspendu ou en voie de suspension.
@@LaKawotte Bonjour jeune homme. Tout d'abord la France a une armée professionnelle que depuis 1999 donc OUI les interventions de la France avant cette date comprenaient aussi des appelés mais qui souscrivaient un contrat de 6 mois ou d'un an pour partir en OPEX. C'était le contrat AVAE : appelé volontaire actions extérieures. Ce contrat était en complément du contrat ASL puis VSL : appelé service long puis volontaire service long qui rajoutait 12 mois au 12 mois (puis 10 mois) de service national. Ils étaient donc présents lors de la 1ere intervention de la 1ere guerre du Golfe (sauf dans l’Armée de Terre) puis dans les contributions françaises des missions ONU dans les Balkans puis dans les interventions de l'OTAN dans les Balkans (toutes les Armées) et cela jusqu'en 1999, date de fin de la conscription. J'ai eu 2 morts dans mon unité en 92 tués par des snipers bosniaques à Sarajevo, c'étaient des appelés VSL. D'autres aussi sont morts et personne n'en parle. L'histoire même récente de notre pays n'est plus enseignée, ceci explique que tu ne connais pas ce qui s'est passé il y a à peine 40 ans. De même que l’on retient que c’est le président serbe le fautif alors que finalement les bosniaques ont tués plus de français que les serbes qui au passage ont toujours été nos alliés. Une manipulation de plus des USA appuyées par la CIA pour contrer la Russie et tenter de mater le président serbe qui avait des vues de souveraineté.
@@phileascurtil5605 et non avant 1999 l'armée régulière comme tu la nommes avait 15% d'engagés et 85% d'appelés !
@@robertoborsalino1855 Très bien connu cette époque, un ami dans le cadre de son VSL est parti en Bosnie, c'était en 93. L'amitié Franco Serbe pour la connaître faut remonter à la première guerre mondiale. Et parler d'un front absent de tous les manuels scolaires, le front d'Orient. Un excellent film français relate cet épisode, c'est le capitaine Conan de Bertrand Tavernier. Film qui n'a pas rencontrer le succès malheureusement. Faut s'intéresser aussi au général Franchet d'Espèrey qui en Serbie est considéré comme un héro national. Ou encore lire le livre du colonel Hogard, "L'Europe est morte à Pristina".
One important thing that was not said and it was a scandal in France when it was revealed was that UN mandate said that they should not shoot or fight at all cost. So a lot of times they had to let the serbian take their weapons without reacting due to the orders.
From that time, France never operated without being allowed to shoot if they think it's needed.
Meanwhile the Swedish politicians hated the colonel Ulf Henricsson, commander of NORDBAT. He got the nickname Sherif of Vares, because he followed the principles of 'Mission Command', meaning orders could be bent or broken if it meant the objective was achieved. So he ordered the units under his command to shoot back if fired upon, and attack if civilians were at risk.
A couple of additional things you may find interesting:
- The decision to immediately counter-attack was taken by the then recently elected French President: Jacques Chirac. President Chirac in his youth had served as an infantry officer in the Algerian war of independance and took a very dim view to French officers being taken hostage and paraded on TV.
- The decision to entirely bypass the UN chain of command was taken because there were Russian officers embeded in that chain of comnmand and it was feared by the French command that those russian officers would immediately inform the Serbs commandos of any French counter-attack. Russia was seen as friendly to the Serbs' cause. Bypassing the whole UN chain of command would enable to retain the element of surprise.
The main reason that the decision was taken immediatly after receiving president Chiriac aggrément was simple to understand : The force commander of UNPROFOR was the french general Janvier who was the 6 light armored division former commander ( 1991-1993) ! So the chain of command was also simple : Chirac french president to general Janvier Force commander of UNPROFOR . What else.
One more interesting fact is that French, alongside other NATO members fought on the side of Al Qaeda (proxies) in Bosnia, and would do the same in Kosovo few years later - a place with most foreign ISIS fighters. Imagine that in post 9/11 context...As Dutch UN soldier said - Are we sure we know who the good guys are here?
French soldier: good argument however
Fixer Baïonnette Au Canons!!!
I was there with the 6 light armored division in Dec. 96! War was over but surrounding was the same. Hurrah for France and respect to Chirac who also took risk during this period and few days after having elected president of France.
If the French had not bypassed the UN chain of command, the prisoners would still be on the bridge almost 30 years later, and the UN chief would be still asking for a cease fire.
None of this shit happened as presented...
bernard janvier was the top unprofor commander at the time!
@@gupler
Oh? Then what's your version, mate?
@@BriselanceThere's no version. None of this shit hapened. this is like asking in which town WMDs in Iraq were found...
@@gupler then the French soldiers who died in this charge (soldiers Marcel Amaru and Jacky Humblot) are inventions. We're hiding them from their families still to this day ? The soldiers who took part all invented it ?
You're ridiculous
Important tidbit: Chirac, unlike most European heads of state at that point, had both served as an officer and had seen combat. He understood the need for a decisive action, not negotiations. If the bridge had stayed under Serb control, they would have been able to penetrate into the city itself.
et moi qui ai cru que la connerie s'arretait à Dien Bien Phu
@@jingo2023 tocard!
The bayonnet charge from the Korean war is absolute bonker! hope you'll get time one day to cover it!
I think he meant Indochine War
@@6belzebuth6 nope, there was a small force of French soldiers in Korean war, and their story is even more insane than this video!
@@6belzebuth6 No, he means : french charge in Battle of Heartbreak Ridge, Korea. The (south) Koreans today have a dedicated monument to those French Soldiers under UN flag
@@6belzebuth6as a French I have a great uncle who died in the Korean war.
January 7, 1951: in Wonju, the 1000 mens of the French UN Battalion receive the mission of covering the flank of the retreating 2nd American Division. They held five days of uninterrupted combat, going as far as hand-to-hand combat and the bayonet, with their weapons frozen by -20°c.
Thus stopping the advance of the Sino-North Korean army.
Chris Cappy Jr. Grew up fast looks just like his father.
I was just thinking the same thing, wasn't 100% that they were related though haha. Sounds a lot like him, too.
Everyone is gangsta until you hear baïonnette au canon
Thanks to those French soldiers for actually doing something to protect their own and our population of a foreign language and religion. Thank you for your service and tremendous sacrifice of the fallen.
After only hearing about the disgraceful actions and complete failure of the dutch UN forces, I'm so happy that I came across this video so that I may venerate the fallen and the living who risked everything on that day.
May God bless the French people, the soldiers who fought to defend my people and their families.
French balls
this and probably also Rwanda explain why France doesn't operate UNDER the UN banner anymore, due to the ROE... they will operate alongside the UN troupes, often doing the fighting when and where it's needed.
and for those saying that the French had nothing to fear from the "Serbs", let's not forget that the sniper didn't care at all that the machine operators building a protective wall in a city there (Sarajevo?) didn't care at all that he was French and not fighting at the time, only protecting
the UN peacekeeping force is a nice sentiment, but it's only as efficient as the waring parties allow it. The ROE are simply stupid if the opposings forces don't respect the "rules".
The thing with snipers in Sarajevo is that Muslim leadership had paramilitary group wich was instructed to shoot civilians and peacekeepers just so they could blame Serbs for it, there were guys who spoke up about it, and guess what, they are all dead now.
"nothing to fear from the Serbs" is the most ludicrous phrase ever uttered. It's almost as stupid as talking about "Russian peace". Serbs regularly took hostages, used human shields, committed horrible atrocities that were worse than what the Nazi army did during WW2 (the Wehrmacht didn't mass-rape women before beating them to death, which the Serbs did often).
And let's not forgot the constant and repeated humiliations the UNPROFOR had to endure for years of mandate, having to halt humanitarian convoys and even their own supply convoys at the whim of any local petty "warlord" or greater general (mostly on the Serbian side, including on Serbia's territory by official Serbian authorities). And there was no muslim sniper in disguise to make Bosnian Serbs seen as the bad by the UNO and the rest of the world. Not there, in Serbs-controlled mountain passes and border posts. Congrats, they managed to piss off most of the military who werved with UNO.
In the end, a few years later, Serbs sadly were payed back for their reputation and misconduct when it became obvious to the others that they would eventually consider "shitting" at the face of the UNO again, backed by their big brother at the UNSC. The international communauty made not the mistake to let them move first, and western public opinions did not object the doings of the Coalition. I mean, this explained that.
I remember this incident, Serbs had made it a habit of "Capturing" UN peacekeepers and then making a show of them as human shields, they used to do the same with Canadians. ROE was basically to let it happen, eventually the French had enough ...
That happened only when the UN "peacekeepers" supplied weapons to Croats and Muslims or took arrested Serb civilians.
@@gupler I remember stories of guys who did UN tours in the former Yugoslavia.. They would go out and seize a bunch of weapons during the day and the local "militias" would come over and take them back at gunpoint as soon as the sun went down. UN ended up often running the armories for local militias.
@@robertsmith4681 Yep, at one point they even had fixed rates. Hell, you the entire DMZ zone around Srebrenica with future Alqaeda members was armed to the teeth thanks to the UN.
@@gupler There is a reason that "mission" ended with a NATO led bombing campaign, whole thing was a UN led clusterf*ck.
@@gupler Pure 100% Bullshit
C'est le capitaine Lecointre qui a mené l'assaut. Il a terminé sa carrière comme CEMA, chef d'état major des armées.
Non; C'est d'abord le Lieutenant Heluin qui a mené l'assaut et ensuite le Capitaine Lecointre après que Heluin fut blessé.
Thanks a lot for this report. The two last bayonet charge were made by french infantry. In Corea in 1951 against waves of chinese soldiers, and in Vrbanja. After this attack of the famous "Bataillon français" in Corea incorporated into the 21 US Infantry Regiment, US general M. Ridgway told "All US units will be reminded that bayonet is much more than just a can opener!" 😉
Que Dieu benisse la France! CQC? It doesn't get any more intense than that!
"You will get revenge from the fear that was inflicted upon you." Words to remember.
Victory, then peace and prosperity. (Thanks for sharing with us. New sub.)
Jacques Chirac may have a lot of that can he can criticized for, but you can say he knew when to put his foot down, like there and on the Irak war
Hi Justin, I'd not heard about this action so thank you for bringing it to my attention. I have a massive interest in the French army after Napoleon, but being from Britain we don't hear much about the smaller actions of the French. I'll have to find out more about this action.
Always support the troops, because the troops always support us!
I hold from Gal Gobillard who was in charge of the french troops that he requested Pdt Chirac authorisation to counter attack. Chirac refused. Gobillard ordered the attack. Shortly after the success of the operation Gobillard received the order to attack from Chirac... He also told me that Lecointre called him during the attack and told him : Gal I already have two men down what are your orders ?. Attack Lecointre attack was the answer.
If that's true, then it's an interesting piece of information, thanks for sharing regardless.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s true.
My brother and I were in the army as well… and long enough to know how it works behind the scenes.
@@snowman8052 Quand j'étains en Centrafriqueen 1996 et qu'on a perdue deux para de chez nous, 24 h plus tard on avait reçus l'ordre du plus haut sommet de l'état de régler l'affaire et encore 24 plus tard on attaquait le camp Kassai. Bilan de ces deux jours soldat français mort 2, rebelle centrafricain 10. Ratio 1 pour 5, aprés cela on n'a plus été emmerdé par les rebelles.
@@fredericmuller7064 don’t mess with paratroopers !
Ils étaient du 6e RPIMa, si on parle des mêmes. Vous aussi?
@@snowman8052 Exact, ça fait plaisir de voir que quelqu'un qui s'en rappel.
Nice topic, good job 👌. I just have a observation: I'm pretty sure than in 1954, during the Indochina (Vietnam) war, for example in Dien Bien Phu battle (so after Korean War), French did many combats with Bayonets against Vietminh.
Vive la France
Thank you for your video which pays tribute to the courage of the French soldiers.
You may be interested in the little-known story of "Jules Beaulieu", in 1940 he heroically held a stand alone against German soldiers.
Here is a French link to this story:
ua-cam.com/video/PnmtW-DX9Yg/v-deo.htmlsi=DLJnL9QeeGJ0035e
Sorry for my very bad english. Hello from France
🔥🔥 LES GAULOIS 🔥🔥
( the Gauls )
Only the romans called them that.
A French regiment is so named : the 92è RI (92nd infantry regiment) based in Clermont-Ferrand.
@@thegto8535 false, the Greeks still call France Gallia which means Gaul
@@anthonyluccini1015 Yes!... and I'm Greek... we also call the Swiss by their ancient name ''Helveti''... we call all ancient ppl whom we knew well back then, by their ancient names, even though everybody's called us the hated degrading name our enemies gave us [greeks]... we are Hellines.[the "'H'' is always silent!] We live in Hellas [or Helada]... but don't worry ''world''... we don't hate you for not knowing better...
@@thegto8535 the Romans weren't even Europeans... a handful of Trojan refugees [that makes the Hittites] built the city of Rome...
Bonjour,
Je suis un vétéran français de cette époque. Merci pour vos commentaires de respect. Chez nous en France, ce n’est pas la même chose malheureusement.
C’est le moins qu’on puisse dire.
J’ai toujours été jaloux des soldats américains, toujours bien accueilli et respectés à leur retour de mission.
Pour nous, le retour c’est plutôt la douche froide…
@@snowman8052 détrompe toi camarade, aux usa non plus c'est pas comme dans les films.
@@KMS2468 Je ne sais pas ce qui te fais dire ça, mais j'y ai été plusieurs fois, et je travail au quotidien avec des américains et j'ai pu constater directement que, même si c'est pas comme les films, les remerciements ne sont pas une légende.
Sans être parfait, c'est carrément mieux que chez nous au moins sur ce point précis. Les allées d'honneur pour les soldats morts au combat se font régulièrement, sur des km. Ici, c'est dans l'indifférence totale que mes frères d'armes sont rentrés dans des boites...
@@snowman8052 tu as raison c'est clairement mieux que chez nous pour les aspects que tu cites. Je tire ca de l'expérience de deux gars avec qui j'ai discuté et pour qui l'effet "welcome home" s'était très vite dissipé après les cérémonies. Mais effectivement je ne suis pas qualifié pour en tirer des conclusions générales.
Pour paraphraser les américains : "merci pour ton service'.
If the Petit Caporal can take the Lodi bridge only using balls and bayonets then LeCointre can take the Verbanjia bridge only using bally and bayonets.
I went to Sarajevo in 1996 for a year as a NATO soldier and stayed as a U.S. civilian until 2000. Your pronunciation wasn’t too bad. Just remember the people of the former Yugoslavia pronounce the letter “J” as we pronounce “Y.”
Kužiš sve, svaka čast !!
Thank You for Your service.
You did great regarding French name pronounciation, with the exception of Lecointre but honestly it would have been impossible to pronounce remotely correctly by a non French speaking person, so kudos to you !
Merci!
Serbian and Serb is not the same. You are incorrectly saying Serbians (instead of Serbs) the whole time.
I just found. 1st squad channel and I love it! More UN peacekeeper documentaries please!
This reminds me how India did Operation Khukri. As you are talking about peacekeepers, I would really like if you cover that incident.
Actually you were pretty good at most of FR names... (I am from there).
One suggestion: i heard, in the same war the current Czech President, as the time an officer did lead a saving mission, helping to save some FR UN Peacekeepers... might be interesting topic for you
Thx that was a fantastic video! I certainly agree with what the French officer said about bayonets it brings out the basic warrior in people!
💕💕🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷💞💞💕
So why are we so timid in the face of Putin, he is exactly the same. If the West had slapped him down in 2014 then we wouldn't have the current situation.
Hey great video, I'm not sure if anyone gave you a way to correctly pronounce Lecointre, but here's my phonetic suggestion:
LE_CO_ANT_TRR.
instead of LE_COY_NAY_TRAY.
Does it make sense?
UN forces didn't do ANYTHING that contributed to a faster ending of the war. I can only say to the French soldiers WELL DONE.
It was the resilience of Bosnian Army (ABIH) that made the difference. Even Croats at one point backstabbed us and started collaborating with Serbian army. And then later Croat and Bosnian army started collaborating again after they realized they can't crush Bosnian Army.
Bosnian Army had embargo on weapons import so we didn't have the right to defend ourselves.
The whole world watched how they massacre innocent civilians. That happened because Bosnian army was mostly Muslims. And being a Muslim in Islamophobic Europe means that they even wanted us to be exterminated.
When the Serbs and Croats are attacking us there were NO peace talks. As soon as Bosnian side repels the attack and goes on counteroffensive UN stops everything and we go to peace talks. This happened quite often.
And DON'T ever say it was a "civil war" !
IT WAS AN AGGRESSION on independent and UN recognized country !!! REPUBLIC of BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
With the help of local separatist.
Have a nice day and don't talk about politics if you have no clue about it. BYE
Pored holandjana koji su bukvalno stajali tu dok su genocid gledali kako se provodi, drago mi je vidit da je barem neko bio spreman zivot dati od UN vojnika da s**e zaustavi u kriminalu. Znam da nije puno brate al em krscani em stranci da zivot dadnu u odbrani muslimanske drzave je stran pojam, ali postujem ovu francusku brigadu za njihovu zrtvu.
Great coverage. I love these kind of mini-doc's on past conflicts. Great work new guy!!! ... and team
Interesting story! Thanks for the vid.
Thank for your work!
I’m french and I can say that you say french’s names correctly 👌🏽😎
Continue your work, I appreciate !
Lecointre……! His video is great, not the pronunciation of French names, but that’s ok :)
LeCointre became something like Leconetrais
Bayonettte au canot
it's Baïonnette au canon
Long time no write french , sorry 😁
@@georgemenassa9891 no problem, it is just that canot is also a french word "Bayonet on the dinghy" ^^
Baïonnette au FAMAS !
Few little details, general Hervé Gobilliard take alone without reffering to Paris the decision to retake the bridge. French soldiers involved were not "marines" but "fusiliers marins" (nickname marsouins), more specialised in amphibious operation and more professionnal than common mechanised or motorised infantry (in those times).
And last the "bayonet charge" was the common french way of conducting a (costly) frontal assault. Orders were simple : Baïonnette au canon - En avant!. You were supposed to walk, while shooting. Uh.
Il y a une grosse différence entre marsouin ( infanterie de marine donc armée de terre) et fusilier marin ( marine nationale) . Le surnom des Fusiliers marins est Sako et non marsouin.
@@macgarns Oui. Mais c'est pour éviter la confusion avec leurs "Marines" qui est un corps autonome, dont la taille avoisine toute l'armée française, à la louche.
@@macgarns Tenez je me reprends. ;-) Essayez d'expliquer à un étranger qu'un Rima était bien un Régiment d'infanterie de Marine, parfois affecté à l'entretien d'un camp militaire et qu'un fusilier marin était surtout un planton affecté à la garde des bases navales. Alors qu'un béret vert (commandos marine, genre pas plus de 100) font partie des forces spéciales ?
Bonjour camarade,
Les troupes de marine françaises sont bien l'équivalent des marines US ou royal marines UK. Les fusiliers marins sont des unités propre à la marine. Ici il s'agit d'infanterie de marine du 3ème RIMa si mes souvensont bons 😊
Les fusiliers marins en France sont des marins...,la c'est les troupes infanterie de marins "les marsouins" ils sont les anciens troupes infanterie coloniale donc c'est des troupes d'infanterie de l'armée de terre ...🤔!! 🇲🇫🇲🇫 La France a une réputation de d'attaque a baionnette depuis longtemps...,en Corée les français avaient donné une charge aussi .🇲🇫🇲🇫
I thought, when I saw this vid in my list, it would probably about the Great War, not Bosnia.
Your not even the real Chris Cappy! Impostor!
I’m sure whoever is that incredibly handsome and talented host is doing is best!
@@Justin_Taylor 100% agreed it only lacked jokes so i put some lame jokes in the comments to compensate.
Never F whit the legion
It´s not pronounced ver-banja but more like Vr-ban-ya. There’s no Ganja 🙄. J is in Slavic language is like Y in ,,Yom,, kippur war
Compared to how Lecointre is pronounced, that one is a minor offense.
This whole episode never made any sense! France had a very good relationship with the federal republica of yugoslavia. France with Britain led a campaign of appeasement with yugoslavia! Also, britain and france were strictly against lifting the illegal arms embargo imposed on croatia and bosnia!
peace keeping missions the un way take a toll on men...they see horrible shit.. and they often can't do anything..
Serbs not Serbians
Military authorities wanted to by-pass polititians and UN as much as possible as they weren't sure to get a green light on this
they got the green light from chirac....
Did you mentioned LTN Heluin (who is on the YT thumbnail) ?
And not withstanding perhaps this example, all those "peacekeeping" operations are completely useless. They were deployed to south Lebanon - their job was to ensure that Hamas would not return to the south Lebanon, so how did that work out? And there are many more example.
This was great. I'd actually love to hear more about peace keeping operations; successes, failures, lessons learned. I feel like we only hear about the most extreme bits, and we tend to only hear about our own troops. I hadn't heard about this one, and I'm glad I did. Thank you!
Thank you for your service and the sacrifices that your family made while you were deployed.
Pronouncing French names is not bad which cannot be said for pronouncing Bosnian words, great topic btw
1:08 the longest siege in history is the siege of candia that lasted 22 years 🙂
Sinon bonne vidéo
Cappy has changed a little...
1) it's not "Serbs" but Chetniks : fascist Serbs. Not all Serbs where complicit, for exemple the "saviour" of Sarajevo, former Col. Jovan DIVJAK of the then Yougoslavian Army, now a retired General of the Bosnian Army, chose the Bosnian side and helped organise defences that saved the city as well as found the Bosnian Army.
The distinction between Serbs and Chetniks is important.
2) The reason why, up to Chirac's presidency, the French troops where reluctant when not complicit (remember Srebrenica) to Chetniks forces is because France and Serbia having been allies, if only friends, ever since WW1, with strong ties between both armies. That changed with the Vrbanja Bridge events, and even more so with the replacement of UN French troops by FFL troops in Sarajevo and the clear presidential orders to fight back if attacked ... that is ultimately what led to the end of the siege of Sarajevo, specifically when the FFL shelled the Chetnik positions on the surrounding mountains which lead to their forces retreating out of range.
Ај не сери гњидо издајничка, ти би радије да нас балије закољу и убијају него да браниш свој народ Молим те реци ми да ли имаш имало срама да ли знаш бре шта су нам балије и усташе радили? Не јер не желиш да их наљутиш ето зато .
what is FFL ?
French Foreign Légion
First, that's not what a Chetnik is strictly speaking, it's a nickname. Second, those were not Serbs but Bosnians, as opposed to the surrounded BosniaKs. The act of shelling the city was frowned upon by Serbian higher ups, to the point of Milosevic himself "awarding" Sarajevo to Bosniaks because "those cowards shelled you from the mountains" during the talks.
Ne lupetaj musavi...
I knew a guy who was a peacekeeper in Yugoslavia, great guy helped me with buying a car
Nice butchering of French names.
He's trying.
🇫🇷
where are the jokes about the white flag?
Your presentation was very interesting. Have you covered the Medak Pocket incident when Croatian Forces assaulted Canadian peacekeeping troops? September 1993.
Croatian forces attacked Serb positions, Canadians aided Serbs. As did most of western countries in the '90s by implementing trade embargos on Croatia and Bosnia, although they knew very well that the Serbs have advantage in firepower. Same did the Dutch in Srebrenica and British in Livno. Only country that (secretly) helped Croatia was Russia (the irony), and for Bosniaks, Turkey and Iran.
Unfortunately, we are "allies" in NATO now but we remember who stabbed us in the back, let's hope we never had to fight side by side with Canadians..
@@marccan3267 hahaha.
@@louisjosephlauziere4123 That's it? Are you not going to talk about how the brave ubermenschen went to a foreign country to teach the Balkan Slavs western values? Thank God, you are becoming a minority in your own country..😉
Vrbanja is pronounced
‘Vr (roll that r) … ban … jah (like jar jar binks)
Actually.. no. Vr-ban-YAH.
You're really bad with french names. Like, very very bad... 😉
Really it's not that bad. I've heard worse pronunciation.
Meanwhile, it's an interesting video. Thx.
Did you know this operation
Operation Bully Bashing is the name given to the military confrontation between Bosnian Serb military forces and Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish combat units composing the United Nations Protection Force's (UNPROFOR) Nordic Battalion (NORDBAT 2), outside of the city of Tuzla on 29 April 1994.
Am sorry, that operation wasnt the "linchpin, turning point of the entire conflict" - you dont know what you are talking about...whatsoever...this just indicate that you have an outside take and perspective and a narrow one that is on the developments that lead to the failed Dayton Accord....
I remember that 😊
I will just remind you that the French government was the one that in the UN and on the European level was acting to prevent any help to be delivered to Arm BiH as they had their own strategic ambitions for Serbia. The French voice was among the most significant in stopping Germany from sending Bundeswehr in the Balkans to protect newly independent Croatia and Bosnia.
You have to understand that French politics and French people are not the same, hell, even in the video it says that politics were against the move while the people were ok with it.
@@julmar9153 People were brainwashed in believing that Serbs were animals back then, which is visible to this day. But in reality Serbs didn't do anything that wasn't done to them already.
Serbs using hostages as human shields, how very Serbian...
Thanks for reporting in English about this episode.
Interesting report T&P staff!
Great video, really interesting theme. Many thanks
I enjoy Justin’s commentary. I remember him from a few episodes during Task & Purpose early days. I subbed to his channel shortly thereafter. He has a unique perspective on the military and on life in general.
"Captain FaRansoa Leconnatrey" XD
I really would like to see videos about the portuguese de-colonization wars in africa. You can not find anything on the topic. I think Task and Purpose is the perfect platform to explore that conflict.
Excellent. Thank you very much for such an informative video!
Serbians who takes an entire outpost hostage without resistance : ah ah french baguette surrender in 1 minute
*a few hours later :*
Actually taking UN as hostage was reaction to reth of NATO bombing. Thus the soldiers were kept on bridges, a possible target.
This looks like Chris cappy's videos made in early 2010s
You should cover the medac pocket
Nothing wrong with the pronunciation as far as I could tell.
That sounded spot-on.
Everything good expect Lecointre, 'oin' makes a special sound in french
Intéressante vidéo. Merci à vous.
Gungy!
Now thé place where the battle took place is juste signale by a little plate with thé names of dead french soldiers . Like if nothing happened
Great format! Subscribed. Merci!
okay its not just me
Needed a dagger to get/stay in there?
In 1992 but not in 1995