The Serbs got to rule Zagreb twice, but they scaled back their demands on Croatia to simply 2/3rds of Croatia in 1991, then to 1/3rd by 1992 since they were beaten back on several fronts. But when one speaks of Serbs one cannot count them as homogeneous in their views. The Belgrade Serbs already wrote off the Croatian Serbs by 1992, with Milosevic’s righthand man Borisav Jovic telling the Croatians that “those Serbs are your citizens, not ours. Crush them on wheels for all I care”. The Croatian Serbs were by and large isolated by 1994 and even more so in early 1995 when the Bosnian Serbs refused to help them out. It’s little wonder why they put up such a weak fight after the first day of Operation Storm and decided to make a run for it.
...and another positive from Galbraith is that he stated that the shelling of Knin was nowhere as bad as the Serb shelling of Vukovar and Dubrovnik.