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VRS was holding til they could hold out while they were running low on supplies/logistics. Does not matter about the numerical advantage, the VRS were always able to counter those numbers with varying degrees of success.

Arkan or any Serb should never be required to answer to any official. They, in the end, answer to Serbia.

I know about the order to withdraw ALL things Serbian from Knin region before the HVO arrived.

The Serbian Guard arrived and stopped dead the Federation in their tracks and pushed back their gains, while the regulars drew further back. After securing and holding with regulars reinforcing their lines they established, Arkan began placing his units lives at risk in order to allow every Serb civilian to escape the advancing Federation units. Once every known civilian passed by, they continued onward til they were ordered back.

If you reffer to 1995, and croatian&muslims operations near Banja Luka, I think you didn't grasp the whole situation.

Yes, Arkan's men were there around Banja Luka, but to claim that they stoped the offensive is a bit overestimated. What happened was that US said "green light is off, red light is on". Just as we know now that croatian operations Bljesak and Oluja were prepared mostly by US ret. generals, with aproval of US officials (damn, US even bombed serb positions and jammed serb communication lines. I think sometimes that's the reason for chaos in serb lines during whitdrawal). So, why did US stop joint croatian muslim offensive on the door step of Banja Luka? I guess to maintain weak balance in Bosnia. It's pretty much stabile source of instability that is required to explain to your and world public why you have to have troops in Bosnia. It's secure source of constant need to be involved in the Balkans, and eventualy, to put pressure on EU. It's all in these lines.

I didn't know about Aleksic case. Can you tell something more about it? What unit was that? I'm not sure Mladic is such type of guy.

I would realy be happy, no matter my personal opinion on Arkan, if our civilians from western bosnia made it to safe. Some of them did, but some didn't. In Mrkonjic grad, out of 181 body, about 150 were decapitated. I don't blame Arkan for defeat in the western parts, to make my position clear. I don't think his actions were that important. Except for Bjeljina. I give him credit for that.

"Arkan or any Serb should never be required to answer to any official. They, in the end, answer to Serbia." Who represents Serbia? You know, we have to have a system. We can not afford our selves to be so unorganized. We suffer because of lack of organisation, obedience, and rule of law. Paramilitars, no matter how brave some of them were, shouldn't have existed. It's wrong in the start. One command, one nation, one army.

p.s. It wasn't HVO in Knin. It was regular HV coming down from Dinara. Croatian MUP (police) was advancing through Velebit, and there were two directions from the south. One of my brothers was on Dinara, and the other one was near Zadar. So, I know few inside stories.

p.p.s. I see you're a serb patriot. I just ask you not to be emotional when think about causes of our defeats, and politics in general.

I wish you well.