Croatians assesed potential fall of enclave as a threat to its own strategic position and threathened to intervene in the matter. Croatians feared that if Bihać falls the Serb forces engaged in the siege would be able to redeploy to wider Karlovac area, where territory of Croatia was only ten kilometers deep before Slovenian border. In order to deter Serbs from further attacking Bihać, as well as to improve its own positions arount Knin, Croatians launched Operation Winter '94 in late 1994. As situation for Bosniak Army deteriorated in relation to Bosnian Serbs, Bosniaks asked Croatia for urgent help in July 1995, which resulted in signing of Split Agreement between Croatian and Bosnian government and established alliance between Croats and Bosniaks in the Bosnian War. CIA also assesed that Operation Storm as well as joint Croat/Bosniak offensives in autumn 1995, more than NATO's air campaign against Bosnian Serbs turned out to be decisive factor in bringing Bosnian Serbs to negotiating table and ending the Bosnian War. Croat–Bosniak War (1992–1994) Operation Winter '94 (1994) Operation Summer '95 (1995) Operation Mistral 2 (1995) Operation Southern Move (1995) 21st Century War in Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force Resolute Support Mission Croatia sent its troops to Afghanistan for the first time in 2003. This initial Croatian contingent consisted of 50 personel, most of whom then were military policemen. As the time passed the number of Croatian troops in Afghanistan increased, along with complicity of the tasks assigned to them. Croatian troops took over tasks of mentoring Afghan National Army members, mentoring of Afghan pilots and air force technicians as well as providing security for various people and objects. In 2006, Croatian soldier Goran Špehar was wounded near Kandahar by an RPG round explosion. Another Croatian soldier was wounded in 2009 during training activities. On 24 July 2019, corporal Josip Briški of Croatian Special Forces Command was killed in a Taliban suicide attack. He was the only Croatian soldier killed in action during Croatian deployment in Afghanistan. In 2020 president Zoran Milanović announced complete withdrawal from Afghanistan after initial Croatian deployment. Last Croatian soldiers pulled out in September same year. Kosovo Kosovo Force See also List of Croatian soldiers History of Croatia History of Croatian Navy History of Croatian Air Force Military of Croatia References Enciklopedija leksikografskog zavoda 1966–69