 A few weeks after the conference , Mihailović sent Ostojić to establish a forward headquarters in Kalinovik in south @-@ eastern Bosnia . Ostojić was to command an operation aimed at encircling and destroying Partisan forces in Bosnia , which was to utilise Chetnik units serving as Italian auxiliaries in Herzegovina and Montenegro , as well as other Chetnik units in the Lika region , northern Bosnia and northern Dalmatia . The plan was predicated on an Allied landing on the Dalmatian coast , which Mihailović believed was imminent . The outline concept was that the Chetniks would set up a corridor through the Italian occupied zone of the NDH as far as the Partisan liberated area in western Bosnia and Lika , neutralising the Italians through a combination of vague promises , encouraging them to surrender , and disarming them if necessary . The plan was finalised by early December 1942 at Mihailović 's headquarters in Montenegro , and operations were planned to commence on 5 January 1943 . However , the plan assumed that Mihailović 's forces were unified , which they were not , and also that his authority extended to many more Chetniks than it did in reality . 
